more generally, I kinda think simple click likes are a cheap form of engagement that get way too much prioritization. however, if you start implementing some sort of pay per like system over lightening i'm definitely onboard for that.
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Working on lightning tips soon now that I have a decent idea of how to do it.
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random idea i had and want your thoughts. we could also implement pay per dislike, except in this case the payment would go to client devs or charitable cause of your choice (over lightening) rather than the author.
Not sure how pay per like or dislike would work when other clients could dislike for free.
would only work if users agree that pay per like/dislike client offers more alpha than simple click like/dislike client. or if they agree that they want their like to support the content creator directly. maybe wont be majority of users, but imo there should be a viable market
btw kind7 is meant to be a generic reaction. Right now empty content means like. Emoji content is a reaction. -1 could mean dislike.
I totally agree with this. I saw #[0] 's comment about how other clients implement free likes. Good point, but also they will have spam problems. Not a problem imho. Rethinking of it as boosting/deboosting a post?
Pay to like might be doable via the generalized pay-to-reply scheme I came up with, but the reply could be the like event:
Idea: if there was an "allowed to reply" note that references another note, you could generalize all pay-to-reply schemes. The original note could have a list of pubkeys that are allowed to send the "allowed to reply" note.
This means you can authorize a custodial lightning node to send these notes on your behalf. You could even use this to do pay-fiat-to-reply
The idea is the note could mark that you need to pay-to-like, so when your client sends a like it won't be seen by clients until they see an allowed-to-reply note of kind 7 sent from a lightning node that authorized the payment.
But at this point you would probably just use an allowed-to-reply lightning tip tally note instead doing something like pay-to-like which is a bit weird.
interesting idea, but not sold on limiting who can pay to like (if I am understanding correctly..)
no that’s not what I’m saying. I’m just providing a way for clients to check if a payment is valid by marking a note with pubkey “authorizors”. These can be a lightning node that sends a “payment verified” when it receives a payment for a specific note_id.
ahh gotcha, and then users can use any of the "authorizers" they want?
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