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You made good points, but I think being human is seeing the reactions of your peers directly in their faces as you say something. Likes are an approximation of that, but I don't know if it gets close enough to be worth all the drawbacks.

But to be honest the nastier part is probably the notifications stuff always calling you to see that some random person you don't even know or value has clicked a button.

Another issue is that a like from someone that only likes things they actually do like should be worth more than a like from these crazies that just keep liking everything they see, but there is no real way to measure this -- while in the real life we can often tell fake likes from real likes.
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Matt Lorentz 2y ago

> I think being human is seeing the reactions of your peers directly in their faces as you say something.

100% agree. Most of our digital interactions are a poor model of the real thing. But I think a lot of the issues you are bringing up are mostly issues because they have been used on platforms for global discourse. Our brains weren’t made for global discourse and I think that’s where a lot of the psychological issues with social media come in.

Relationships need trust and conversations need context. Platforms like Twitter have low trust and context. Contrast this with a Signal/Telegram/WhatsApp group of your closest friends or family - high trust and high context. I think the middle is the sweet spot for healthier social media. Likes from people you trust and have context with are meaningful and useful.

This is why we’ll probably have likes in Nos, but we’ll also be restricting your view in most places to people you follow and people they follow (like secure scuttlebutt, and https://iris.to). This creates a medium trust/context space. This view restriction isn’t perfect, but it’s a start, and I hope we see lots of experiments in this area on Nostr.

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