How does Zion work?
Discussion
Copy and Pasta Sphinx
Oh, you missed 90% of the story. They've abandoned the Sphinx clone over an year ago. Then they were going to use Nostr and they even had code working for a proto-zap spec using keysend. Then they were visited by a committee of Web5 and people involved on the Nostr stuff (Christopher from https://thearcapp.com/ and another guy at least) were fired and they started from scratch.
But since Web5 doesn't seem to actually be finished yet I wonder what they're doing.
From what I understand it’s creators can setup paid content communities. DID and uses lightning network. https://www.zion.fyi/creators
Like Nostr in that you can zap with built in wallet. There are some nice features that I think will make it distinct from Nostr. It seems to me to be more built for having conversations about topics that interest you. You should try it. I like both platforms because they serve different purposes but complement each other in that they are both building to decentralize. You should give it a try.