I see no value in quotes when people have started to abuse them. Yes, at some point, boosting was better than sats, but now it's mostly either bots (80%) or echo chambers of like-minded individuals (20%) who are quoting, resulting in just noise that I don't need in my feed.
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The issue is that replies are in practice a semi-private conversation between you and the OP. If I wanted a private 1-on-1 chat, I would prefer a DM.
The ability to bring other people into a conversation is a crucial part of social media and why it's so powerful.
Yeah, what’s the point of talking... I just don't want to see someone’s dumb post "Bitcoin is the future" 50 times.
The worst are the Chinese. There are entire chains of bots here, whose feeds consist of an endless stream of quoting each other, and one bot even writes comments to itself and then quotes itself.
Most things in Nostr don't work and don't make sense. The follower count is inaccurate, deleting notes doesn't actually delete them, zaps are empty, and the author adds reactions to their own posts. Quotes are no different in this regard—they aren't special enough to show every boost in the feed as if it were the first time.