Why do we need to use the social graph if we can just use zap counts directly as a signal of relevance?
Ok. Been meaning to publish this for a little while now.
I think reviews are an extremely underrated / under explored design space for application that want to leverage Nostr (in particular, the social graph).
In this essay, the first of a series I want to publish on nostr:npub1w0rthyjyp2f5gful0gm2500pwyxfrx93a85289xdz0sd6hyef33sh2cu4x, I break down:
- how reviews drive commerce
- despite their being broken / fake / easily gamed
- how the internet originally won
- what’s needed to make the internet functional again (upgraded stack)
- how this upgraded stack makes a whole new design spaces possible
- how ONE of the many things we’ll fix is reviews
- how we’re going about it with a project we’re calling Satlantis
nostr:npub18lzls4f6h46n43revlzvg6x06z8geww7uudhncfdttdtypduqnfsagugm3 - as promised. Put it up on highlighter.
nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m - this is what I was alluding to last week. That being said, I want to dig deeper on your particular comment, and I’ll do that in the next essay.
nostr:npub1sfhflz2msx45rfzjyf5tyj0x35pv4qtq3hh4v2jf8nhrtl79cavsl2ymqt - Thankyou for your early feedback 🙏🏽
Discussion
The zapvertising astroturfing risk?
It could end up as yet another pay-to-play economy, except advertisers really ought to be paying the end-users for their attention, rather than paying themselves to climb the relevancy ladder.
Locking up liquidity has an opportunity cost. Only worth it if users find content engaging enough to tip.