You can leave a heart emoji in the comments or just scroll past the note. Wanting to be able to like posts that the OP doesn’t want to be liked is a form of entitlement
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What if the OP doesn’t want people to reply with heart emojis?
Y’all realize that Facebook created likes so they can target ads to you. Y’all sitting here defending one of the biggest pitfalls of modern society 😂
There is nothing that anyone can do to stop me from creating advertisements and targetting those ads at individuals. Indeed, zapping is even better for ad targetting. Zap receipts are very public at the moment and I could quite easily set up a system that tracks who zaps who and even infer why.
It's a FREE NOSTR, and you have to take the bad with the good.
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>Y’all realize that Facebook created likes so they can target ads to you. Y’all sitting here defending one of the biggest pitfalls of modern society 😂
Try tracking anonymous zaps ⚡️
Your really going to die on the like button hill aren’t you?
Give me likes or give me death!
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>Try tracking anonymous zaps ⚡️
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>Your really going to die on the like button hill aren’t you?
*Defending choice*
nostr is about freedom to use the protocol as you wish. Not as others prefer it to be
I wish for my notes to not have a fiat like button underneath them. That’s my preference. If you want people to be able to like your notes, I could care less. You liking my note when I don’t want likes is only defending your choice.
Fair enough. But if the protocol has likes “built in” (and I don’t know, on a technical level, if that’s true), then a user can always like your note.
Your choice would be not seeing the reaction (or the button), by using a client that allows that customization
But, like “deleting” a note, it’s not the reality of events on the protocol.
(Someone please correct me or elaborate if I’m misunderstanding how reaction-events work here)
Ultimately I agree with you that likes are problematic in traditional social media. But I also think the pendulum needn’t swing to the other extreme.
The very fact of zaps existing means that there’s a way to opt-out of a value-less reaction, and that will massively affect communication - as well as advertising - in the future
A stellar example of new advertising, courtesy of #[8] 
I _AM_ entitled to like a note. Indeed, there is nothing anyone can do to stop me from liking a note. If you take away the 'like' button, I can reply with "I like this". If you take away the reply, I can quote the ID of the note and say "I like this". If you hide the ID, I can copy the text of the note and say "I like this". If you make all that very difficult, I can take a screenshot and post that.
Likes cannot be stopped. Nor should anyone try to censor them. It's a FREE NOSTR. Deal with it.
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>You can leave a heart emoji in the comments or just scroll past the note. Wanting to be able to like posts that the OP doesn’t want to be liked is a form of entitlement