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Is no one else bothered by the fact the piece of content that’s gotten the most zaps on nostr recently, is a sensationalist hot take? Nostr doesn’t seem to be solving the fundamental issue plaguing modern media, that sensationalism will drown out balanced content any day of the week.
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Flobstr 2y ago 💬 2

Is no one else bothered by the fact the piece of content that’s gotten the most zaps on nostr recently, is a sensationalist hot take? Nostr doesn’t seem to be solving the fundamental issue plaguing modern media, that sensationalism will drown out balanced content any day of the week.

Disagree. There is no kind of bad mechanism pushing sensationalism here, no engagement farming, no algorithm used, except for honest and well written words. Sensationalist hot takes with value will always get value back. Zaps, boosts, comments... that's how it SHOULD work

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jack 2y ago

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Cyber Seagull 2y ago 💬 1

Stupid things will always get more money. What Nostr fixes is not bell curves and human nature. Nostr makes sure smart things can also get money, anyone can follow smart money they choose, and smart things can't be censored.

So no , i'm not concerned. I hope more outrage attracts people to Nostr.

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Cyber Seagull 2y ago

Not to imply Lyn is stupid or the post was stupid by the way. Just that outrage/alarmist posts appeal to many people with or without an algo pushing it.

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LordMelkor 2y ago

Human attention is bounded and can be saturated though. Nostr seems to be distributing the responsibility for the mechanism to filter out the garbage. Hard to tell if that’s good or bad yet…

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LordMelkor 2y ago

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aap9559

“Contrary to conventional wisdom, robots accelerated the spread of true and false news at the same rate, implying that false news spreads more than the truth because humans, not robots, are more likely to spread it.”