Some of the comments under the more frequented posts on nostr make me think that there should be a cost to commenting (in zaps).
This would significantly increase signal and decrease noise and would make it much easier to find the more interesting conversations that are going on.
I know this is not a new idea here.
However, I’m also not convinced comments should be ordered by amount zapped. My concern here is that we get back to an advertising model where people can simply pay for engagement. Curious about other people’s thoughts.
How many sats do you think a comment should be worth?
Probably should be up to the author to decide on the barrier to entry. The equilibrium will likely look a little bit different for everyone.
WDYT?
It’s an interesting idea, maybe you could rank the replies by the amount of sats they pay.
Highest zap = top.
Yeah. My Fiat brain is then concerned that we get back to a model where you van essentially pay for engagement, i.e. attention economy.
But maybe that’s not the case in this new paradigm. I wonder if it would play out differently.
Part of the problem is that chatbots are going to get more and more human like quite quickly.
There probably needs to be some kind of financial friction to prevent a massive explosion of chatbot accounts throughout all of social media.
Nostr is going to have to invent social norms around zapping to some degree. Obviously it’s down to individuals but every culture has norms that most individuals agree with and uphold.
I unfollowed an account just reposting tweets - that’s a bot not adding anything to nostr, freeriding off the userbase.
I follow bots like conxole and remindme that do explicit tasks for users - no issue with them and have zapped owners for making them.
Think the https://verifiedhuman.net project is going to be of major importance to allow nostr to grow and ensure it isn’t overtaken by bots. Bots could be an immense force for good with Lightning available but they need to be supplementary to humans, not here in their stead.
I’m not a fan of reposting bots.
I think it’s pointless to post things without engaging. I also think scheduled content is a waste of time.
Zap norms are interesting though, hard to say what will happen but I think the value layer can be used to authenticate something is real, has real attention and is rooted in reality and is not merely a high volume chat bot.
