I’m not sure we are chatting about the same thing, or I am missing your point. My position is that zaps should not be central. The reason is because any meaningful IRL relationships I have do not involve any monetary exchange as a basis. I maintain that for nostr to grow based on relationships then zaps should be secondary or incidental. My 2 zaps 🤷♂️😄
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in a perfect world i totally agree with you but i believe community growth needs to be incentivised somehow.
in my opinion social media "relationships" are mostly one-sided. as in many people on here know nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m, but jack knows only a handful.
my argument is that for the nostr community to grow, you need many more large accounts to advocate for and use nostr. then people follow them to a new platform (or protocol);
and whether this is good or bad, monetary incentives for creators are important - which could be zaps here.
if the goal is to grow nostr, i am not sure how else to achieve that.
We don't need to convince the masses.
We just need to redesign the foundations!