As good a idea it is, I think it would severely stunt the growth of nostr and inherently the reach for artists… unless all clients are are going to become a wallet like primal, just from scanning the introductions tag and greeting new users, at least 90% don’t set up wallets or at least not right away and only the btc community that comes over to Nostr seems to be in a hurry to set one up at all. I like the idea rather of opting for “zaps only” in settings
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Likes don’t help give someone reach
True and the likes are not meant for the artists, I’m saying for the new users that don’t understand btc and don’t have the ambition yet to find out… the legacy users just switching over to Nostr is what I am talking about… it gives them a feeling of validation to receive likes which in turn motivates them to use the protocol, maybe have it so users can turn off the ability to receive likes and only receive zaps. If more and more of us did this and new users saw new artists that they like and want to support only allowing recognition in zap form, it may increase the likelihood hood that fans would adopt btc and zap them… it’s just a thought… the bigger problem is that humanity is lazy and unless they have motivation to learn or setup a wallet, most are too lazy to input more than a button click to begin with…