What I see in Amethyst.
Primal shows 0 because it only counts ♥️, and ignores other reactions.
Nostur may ignore the fake jack, which is a spambot.
Damus counts all reactions.
Discussion
Ohh, so it’s the reactions. I learned something new today on #nostr
It honestly crazy how it doesn’t read all reactions. It’s a good thing multiple clients exist.
Keep moving until you find what works 🤷🏽
Primal is user friendly, but limited in several ways. On iOS I think damus & nostur are the best choices 🤙
After using all three, I have to agree. The only thing I really like about Primal is its "trending" feature—that’s it.
I’ve been asking a lot of questions because I know others will eventually join Nostr and have the same ones. I want to inform myself so I can help reduce any friction they might face getting started. Part of the reason I’m doing this is because I know some of my friends might get involved too—so I’m learning for them, as well as for the people I meet online.
Personally, I don’t mind testing different clients, dealing with bugs, or waiting for new features to roll out. I know that puts me in the minority, but I genuinely enjoy helping others
LOL! Get rekt, fake Jack!
Yep. That is absolutely what is going on.
Trying to get other clients to embrace having a wide variety of reactions... They want to be like Twitter too much.
Having only one available reaction, whether it be ❤️ or 👍️ or even 🤙, is useless when we have zaps. All it tells me is that you have a positive impression of what I said. The zap tells me that too, AND tells me the intensity of your positive impression, based on how much you zapped me.
Meanwhile, if we have a wide variety of reactions, I can tell if you found what I said to be funny 🤣or mind-blowing🤯, or if you heartily agreed with it 💯/🎯, or even if you agreed with me about how ridiculous something is 🤡.
The ❤️ by itself doesn't add any information that isn't contained in the zap. The zap has information, namely the intensity of how much you liked it, that isn't included in the ❤️, and the wide range of reactions provides additional context that isn't included in the zap.
My preference would be that clients either go only-zaps, or if they have reactions alongside zaps, that they allow the full gamut of expressiveness in those reactions. The ❤️ alone is useless.