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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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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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.
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.
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…
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.”
Hot takes and drama will always attract eyeballs. That's how tabloids and clickbait sites have worked and will continue to work. What nostr promotes is an open protocol, not a cure for human nature.
If you don't want to see hot takes and drama, you can probably design either a relay or a client that can filter for notes with an "unusually high engagement" numbers.
The same goes with spam and scam bots. It's not the responsibility of the protocol to filter them. Doing that will open the floodgates to what made corporate social media the way it is.
Filtering should be done on an individual level (i.e: client and relay implementations.)
That difference alone makes nostr wildly different than corporate social media.
Yeah , and it’s no big deal when you can see where peoples ideas come from because of thier notes. Not gonna start a fire in my bucket ,,, last rule in reasonably productive engagement is no name calling . If you break that first , it’s like a poker call.
This is an interesting perspective. Hadn’t thought about it in that way.
Hate never wins in the end