“I don’t understand the appeal of something I’ve never used.”
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Why don’t try to explain it to me instead of making fun? 🤷♂️
Literally just enable the feature, it speaks for itself
Get Wallet of Satoshi, copy in your Lightning address to your Nostr client, and watch what’s possible. Will take you all of 30 seconds
Zaps add a more solid feel to your engagement and appreciation of a post. A like is ephemeral, a zap is forever because you provided a tangible, measurable value to your appreciation. It's often less than a penny in fiat, but still a value, and as they say, they stack. A million people like your post? That and $1 will buy you a soda. A million 21 sat zaps? Thats $441 US fiat. So many more sodas! (or just hodl if that's your thing).
That’s a very good explanation. Thank you.
It is what I thought, and based on my experience in Twitter, I don’t expect any significant amount of likes, let alone zaps… so, I still don’t see the appeal (for me) but now I am aware some people find that opinion offensive.
Getting them isn't the driving force for me to engage here, or to post things, but it's nice to get even the small amounts.
I give out a lot more than I get because I feel like it encourages others to help grow this space.
And #zapathons are fun because it's like throwing holloween candy back and forth.
I don’t think you’re also realizing the ability for zaps to, say, become an adhoc fundraise for a product or as-yet-uncreated content
Removing all the friction from showing your support for something financially is a sleeping giant
Protests movements raising funds
Disaster relief
Kickstarter, GoFundMe, BuyMeACoffee, Patreon, OnlyFans… all of these, but without any friction. A click.
And then turn it around… you supported the creation of a movie? You own a piece now - you get zapped every time someone buys a ticket
This kind of profit sharing is unimaginable before programmable money
Blockbuster beat mom and pop video stores because they did profit sharing with the studios. They had computer accounting systems that could track rentals and remit to the studios. Mom and pop’s were still on pen and paper.
Then of course they lost out to streaming, which was a different tech innovation, but another they couldn’t see coming
It’s hard to see the impact novel tech will have, but that doesn’t mean you should dismiss it outright because its use isn’t readily apparent to you
Also, seriously, enable zaps and let me zap you, showing is so much better than telling