Shouldn’t zaps for quality content kill the influencer model?
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I'd say it will fuel it even more. First, you focus in making great content which will earn you actual money, so you make even more great content, and then when you have a huge following, you earn extra money from putting product placements into your great content.
Bow you just have to find the sweet spot where the product placement earns you more than the lost zaps from people who are pissed by the product placement (which should be trivial, most people don't give a shit).
So now, zaps actually enable wannabe influencers to bootstrap their "venture" since they can now earn a little money right from the start, before they even got really big.
damn typos 🙈will there ever be an edit button for Nostr? 🥺
Besides being polite I don’t see a reason for likes. What would be the effects of eliminating likes and follower count? You could still follow someone but it doesn’t need to show a count anywhere. No more likes or followers. Just put out whatever content you want and receive zaps from people that find value.
Likes / follower count can be signals that allow algos to pick the best messages out of an ocean of infinite noise. Of course likes and followers, being free, can be gamed, so zaps would be better.