It’s odd that so many people still feel uncomfortable receiving value for their content directly from others.
When you interact on centralized social media, you’re freely giving your thoughts, opinions, and personal preferences to corporations and advertisers who extract as much value from it as possible and give you nothing in return.
When you’re here, you’re exchanging value for value, peer-to-peer. Why does that scare anyone?
it is odd, because it's not the norm.
but that can change
When a friend asks another friend that he seen playing coin flip how do you stop and collect your winnings and directs you to a gamblers anonymous just for a laugh that's why Daniel cheers buddy.
because being able to be paid value for value means that you are directly judged on the quality of your content. Most people are afraid of that judgement.
If posting on a bigcorp social media site and you get no likes, you can say "oh, the algorithm doesn't like me"
If you post on nostr and you don't get likes/zaps, it means that your content is not valuable and that makes people feel bad about themselves.
People aren't quite equipped to understand what it means to bring value to others. Hopefully, nostr will help them understand that as they use it more.
It’s like there needs to be some sort of detox from the effects of those algorithms ,, I’d say I started detoxing 3/3 this year , but I get why it’s not a good idea to have empty transactions taking up needless space ,, that needless space right now is the dopamine connection that’s been molested by the other systems algorithm,, gotta rewire it to something of value now ..
Sometimes I feel uncomfortable because I can't always match the generosity of others. Some people have stacked sats since 2011 or whatever, so zapping thousands of sats at a time is not a big deal. Newbies are operating with a much smaller stack.
What you find valuable is your decision. What you contribute that others find valuable is a mutual decision. No one can set a price on it. You can zap a single sat, and it will still be appreciated.
It’s still early enough for anyone to stack a life-changing amount. Just don’t get discouraged by what you think others have.
There are people on the little bird site flexing their OG buys today, and it’s disgusting. 
Imagine sitting around the living room with your friends. Someone says something you like or agree with. Imagine them expecting you to pay them for the privilege of liking it or agreeing with it.
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For me it's the point that I don't know who is on the giving end. It could be someone who does it out of pure generosity, or it might be the "socially awkward" person that wants to fit in and gives away his last sats.
I haven't zapped a single person yet. I planned 1M sats for zapping as the maximum limit per year (plus the ones I receive). But the more I think about it the more it feels like that at some point it will be expected to zap. If you don't do it you won't be part of the cool kids. I've never been one of the cool kids.
