Second. I haven't used build, but second the rest for sure.

It provides a metric of their opinions.

Or do you mean this in a sense where advertising is already the status quo? What are we worried about on nostr? Relays being ad supported?

I consider any communication with what I write some amount of value. Even if it isn't monetary.

Their purpose is what we decide it is.

Marketing can monitize any interaction. And our interactions are public.

Comment, like, zap, it's all useable marketing data points.

I understand fearing an adverisement takeover, but we also need to communicate. And any communication is a data point.

Likes arent the problem, it's people's willingness to put up with ads.

We all need to encourage everyone to shun and block ads, not attack various forms of communications because marketing agencies will use them for evil.

Nah, let my mistakes be known!

But doesn't it also provide value to the creator?

Though, I suppose comments could do that just as well.

But then they just use that data instead.

Not sure what the solution is, but I like to acknowledge people sometimes when I have nothing meaningful to contribute.

I'm in favor of likes. I just wish we had dislikes too.

I mean, the whole "Trump is a racist" thing was crazy back in 2016. I remember having a discussion with someone on g+ about that.

Dude's biggest evidence was heresay from an excutive he fired.

Meanwhile Hillary was being openly racist towards a native American polition.

Gosh I wish I had that video clip, at this point, all I have is heresay ><

Amethyst. I tried primal, but the slow fade transitons are something I cannot live with.

In some cases I'm sure, but in many, it's marketing.

Aye, morning.

Ah, fantastic. I need to do the domain verification thing...

I hop on every other month or so. I like the reddit alternative idea, but due to federation it's hard to use.

I think I'm connected via lemm.ee as they were the least insane a couple years back.

Federation is doomed from the start.

Yea, it kinda worked for bbs, but that's before non-technical users gained control of the tech.

There's too much delay for today's world and the way blocking works destroies communication.

Federation was never the answer. We didn't need more, albiet smaller, centers of power, we need there to be no center of power what-so-ever.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yX_-yrJgpH4&pp=ygUVYWRhbSBzYXZhZ2UgdHJpY29yZGVy

If you're into it, this is for you.

Pipepipe is a fine newpipe fork. Also available via fdroid.

And this is why you never leave a vehicle running unattended.

I figure likes are like a head nod or a laugh.

If I have nothing meaningful to contribute, but want to acknowledge something, a like works well. And perhaps even a zap.

Also keeps the conversation space clean.

That seems simple enough.

But owning a domain means you can change your backend while maintaining your identity.

Or at least its authenticity.