I'm actually just messing with you, seeing how easy it is to bait maxis on here, and mentioning Monero since a lot of them are unreasonably dismissive of it.
In reality I like Bitcoin and hold a fair amount, but all anyone ever talks about on Nostr so far is Bitcoin, which is boring, and the whole zaps thing is an awful idea.
Well Bitcoiners naturally would like something like Nostr, and since bitcoin is such a fascinating topic, it's not surprising to see bitcoiners talk about it. Why are zaps an awful idea??
Think about platforms like Reddit. They gameify social interactions through upvotes. You're not incentivized to say what you really think, but what you (subconsciously) think will get you the most upvotes (dopamine). So all social discourse degenerates towards the lowest common denominator. Zaps are like that but with money, in addition to dopamine. They're like Reddit gold/upvotes on steroids.
And sure, I like Bitcoin too. But it's not a personality. And the entire global feed is Bitcoin, Bitcoin, zap, zap, Bitcoin, etc.
Nostr was created by a Bitcoin protocol developer with a lot of money from Jack Dorsey for the express purpose of proving that web3 (social media over a time chain misused for bloated data storage) is stupid and can be done better a different way.
Crypto is all "let's reinvent the wheel but on the time chain" now that is fucking boring
