Polls are already a thing just use a client that supports them
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Poll with 2 votes lol
my main concern is a single script that could be written to ruin every poll that pops up. it would be very easy. we don't have the web of trust quality i would like to be at to filter those out. and even then it would only be results from your friends, which has limited usefulness. best part of X polls is that they are open to everyone, but that mainly works because its centralized and can do that.
also polls on X are anonymous which makes people more willing to engage with them. Something you can’t really do on nostr. Some things just work better on a centralized network. Its easy to *blame the devs* when you don’t have to do the actual work to make it work
It’s easy to feign ignorance when the bounty specified open polls to avoid the brigading of polls seen on Xitter when you think of yourself as the Henry Ford of a particular industry.
If Polls were rolled out when I put up the bounty, they’d be getting more than 2 votes today.
But Henry Ford here knew we didn’t need polls, we just needed a desktop version of his iOS app.
I was the first person to donate to him and have never touched his desktop client because I don’t need another fucking desktop client, contrary to what Henry Ford says.
Your conception was fundamentally flawed from the start. Polls only work when there isn't a buy in. I use Amethyst (which has your polls) and I have talked with lots of other Amethyst users. None of us like or use polls, and the reason is because they charge Sats.
The reason is because they never got support from other clients, mainly due to the other major client at the time, Damus, not implementing them.
It wouldn't matter now, because Damus is a minor client, one of many on iOS, and no longer the best option anyways. Yakihonne is better in every way, and has poll support.
Dude we have support. A bunch of us use Amethyst. None of us use polls. Using these retarded pay-to-win polls would be insulting to everyone reading my post.
The problem isn't the percentage of people who have access to polls. The problem is that polls turn what should be a genuine human interaction into a transaction.
Maybe instead of asking how many people have access to zap polls as a feature, you should be asking how many people have chosen not to connect a wallet to their account despite the fact that lightning support is practically ubiquitous?
You can make it a simple 1 sat to vote poll, it doesn't have to be pay to win. There are limits built into the nip and the implementation. A small payment is a perfect way to disincentivize spammers too. Free polls will be useless due to them
And you're plainly wrong. Being available in only one client is a huge issue that makes features non viable, use your head. If it's only working for a small number of users, it won't gain traction. We see this constantly on Nostr.
Just because you don't know how something works doesn't make it a bad idea 🤷♂️
Dude, you don't get it. 0 sats would be too many. A poll should not require people to get out their wallets. Period. It doesn't matter what they take out or don't take out of their wallets.
Tbh Nostr's spam issue is way overblown. The people who care most about it only care because they are looking for excuses to shove Bitcoin into everything. No offense if that describes you.
Again, it doesn't matter if it was available to everybody. I'm telling you it STILL wouldn't gain traction. And I have given specific reasons for this conclusion.
Just don’t use #Damus because Polls
are not supported there 2.5 years after a bounty to get them implemented was released because Will “Henry Ford” Casarin decided nobody wanted them even though he was building a Xitter clone and just left out this important Xitter feature
I prefer Damus as my default client
Sorry bro, no polls for you. Will didnt want to develop that feature, he wanted to make another client for desktop and compete with all the other desktop clients they serve that space just fine.
some people think that making an app is simply adding every feature that everyone asks for. if people want that they could just use amethyst. damus ios is trying to do one thing and one thing well. I don't even think its that good at what it does yet. still trying to make it more performant.
next testflight is really slick, adds local relay and offline support via the embedded relay! should help with low connectivity environments.
Got polls in there Henry Ford?
No?
I just want a faster horse?!
How does go fuck yourself sound?
I get your point. But this is nostr. On nostr, Damus is just one app.
Does nostr give you polls? Yes. use the app that provides it.
Expecting every app to have every feature is a recipe for failure.
You missed the part where I put up a 0.1 BTC bounty to get this implemented on Nostr.
Forgive me for not falling to my knees and sucking Henry Cassarin’s cock
No I saw that. And that’s very generous of you.
But like if I put a bounty of 1 bitcoin for Amethyst to remove streaming that doesn’t mean my idea is now worth 1 bitcoin.
Except I didn’t put a bounty up to remove stuff?
I put a bounty up when there were a few thousand ppl here everyday to build something, and that something still doesnt exist in Henry Ford’s corner of #Nostr, 2.5 years later.
So you’re mad because you randomly sent money to someone and they didn’t magically do everything you asked for? got it.
Go hire your own dev. Fork the code and build your own. 🤷♂️