I would highly encourage you to set yourself up to become zappable. Zaps are a crucial part of nostr.
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It takes time for new
Comer to set up wallet . As they are pretty much use to old system .very complicated stuff with the documentation needed just to set up wallet . ☺️
He does have an npub wink-wink
And can even receive emojis.Though maybe let's not hide the zaps from the noobs at first.
Zaps are not a crucial part of nostr
Is this why you've never helped me? Because I won't join your lightning grifter cult?
I am not convinced that that is true, today.
It could be in future. It's worth experimenting, at least.
What crucial role do they play? (Honest question.) For content creators, I think it's probably better to convert readers into subscribers (e.g. BOLT12 recurring invoices), in the patreon model. For content consumers, the patronage model is also probably better at intelligently funding the kind of stuff that's good for you rather than a dopaminergic ad hoc process of zapping.
For algorithms, my understanding is that zaps are just an unverifiable statement between two people, e.g. you and I could sign a zap saying that one of us paid the other 1M BTC without even a single sat changing hands. If they were verifiable, they'd seem to give algorithmic advantage to rich people and that doesn't particularly interest me.
they keep saying that but zaps aren't really meaningful and are totally unnecessary for nostr