One thing that currently feels different on Nostr compared to other "classic" networks is that spam is not yet normalized as "ads".

I still see some spam on Nostr (on the bottom of replies usually), but it's clear that it's spam. It's not somehow sneakily sorted on top, looking like a real content. It's very much clear that it's a spam or scam.

If you show me ads, then I think me (and the community) should directly benefit.

I'm interested in seeing if the SN model works out (ads on SN put sats into daily rewards budget and that gets split to the most value providing users every day), or if there are different models that would make sense here?

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Ads are just information paying for attention.

It's a lot like finance - an essential economic service perverted by middlemen.

I don't know how ads should ideally work, and I view ads on SN as an adjunct experiment, but I'm bullish on p2p ads as a concept.

(I also just spent the weekend chatting with someone considering whether to pursue a bitcoin ad startup.)