It sounds.. desperate.
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Agreed, but you could say having friends on the internet is desperate too. Lots of things probably seem desperate to someone living in luxury, but sats as value is not too much different from the time and energy invested.
What I find really interesting is once it matures and scales, it can provide an incentive to influencers which is much healthier than biased ad revenue. "Brought to you by Pfizer" killed millions.
I suppose I'm not someone who is easily convinced by gettiing thrown money at. I'm not a child. I get to decide and make my own choices without the distraction of something valuable being shoved in my face.
Good :) Especially as a woman, you probably don't like the idea of being "for sale." Personally I don't send zaps to influence people's choices, except perhaps to say "I liked what you post and would like to see more of it." Kind of like a 'super-like' button.
But we should acknowledge that many influential people are still trying to put food on their table and clothes on their kids, and it would be much better to do that from 1,000 zaps from your friends than 1 payment from a soulless corporation.
I suppose? They're still trying to sell themselves out. And the other side is buying them. That circle jerk isn't for me, I guess.
Me neither. There are lots of people on Nostr I don't get along with. That's the beauty of it-- you don't have to. Bitcoin and Nostr is for everyone. It's for enemies. It's for degens, and that's okay. Most pioneers are pioneers because they're desperate.
But we have to separate out preferences from what the world needs, IMO. The buy-sell of human activity is as old as time, has many good aspects, and it needs a system like this one to replace fiat centralization.