I certainly don’t want to have it excluding genuine participation but I’m concerned about the effects of “cheap talk” especially given that the internet has everything asymptotically approaching infinite and instant
I would be interested in any non-monetary “proof of work” solutions that could maybe be more equitable but real costs seem inherent to proof of work
Zaps are not falsifiable but they are transferrable. So lets use your bot farm in this circumstance. You transfer 50k sats from bot a to bot b for "virtually no transaction fee" (obviously you will be burning some amount) and you can continue to farm this around, adding to it as need be to increase visibility and make an opinion seem high value.
This could be used politically showing opinions praising one political party and/ or demonising the other having big sats attached to them to implicitly suggest that if you too hold those opinions sats will be coming your way.
If you're worried about bot farms giving 1000's of likes I don't think this problem currently exists here. Some spam filtering has already been implemented on relays but removing likes isn't going to remove spam comments which are a much bigger issue. Focussing on curating your follows as well as individually blocking people you feel aren't adding to your conversations will always be the best way to remove cheap talk from your feed.
That’s a good point. I’ll have to think on it more I guess
The guy that makes Amethyst made a poll feature that lets you vote with zaps, which is a terrible idea.
But I mean, zaps are practically worthless so if some political group wants to push a certain post or narrative, it’ll cost them very little to do so anyway. Making “likes” cost a fraction of a cent isn’t going to change anything.
