Zaps are the best way I think. So simple and scalable.
At big tech scale you could potentially earn a lot from creating viral content for real humans.
It seems very wrong that Apple have blocked zaps. At eg TikTok scale it would be a complete deal breaker if I could get zaps on Android but not iPhone.
Sure, the big relays are current burning through circa $10k a year and that’s with about 8,000 active users.
Seems like we as users should each be spending $1-5 a year on nostr.
Meta has $120bn revenue from 2bn users. So they are making $60/yr from each user.
Seems achievable, just need some biz models.
But also, I do agree that if there isn’t a way for creators to be paid then a lot of good content will never be created.
I’m pragmatic, not really an ideologist.
Merchandise isn’t information.
You can’t censor goods and services can you? Only information?
I’m thinking aloud here.
You don’t have to monetise actual eyeballs.
You can monetise merchandise, services, engagement, lots of options.
Are to trying to censor content behind a paywall?
If so, you might have come to the wrong place.
Honestly I could get really interested in soil.
So complex, so important to Earth.
History, future, science, nanotechnology, geo-engineering, soil could do lots of things. Central to terraforming and extension of DNA timeline beyond the death of Sol.
Super soil could be the self replicating self correcting, durable system that stabilises life on Earth. It can also store massive amounts of information in DNA.
Self governing systems are always interesting to me.
You can get granite or marble pans for less than £20 these days. Just replace them if/when they mark. 🤷♂️
I know this is a controversial issue here. 😬
Each to their own. I could understand huge sentimental value being attached to cookware.
For me it’s time spent cleaning v’s cost of replacing.
Honestly, the moment it’s gonna take me 15 minutes to clean a pan, I’m binning it. I would rather spend 15 minutes compounding my knowledge by reading.
Pans are cheap.
Yes “follow distance” is a good term for it.
A follow distance of 2 captures pretty much all of the active users and filters out 99% of spammers.
This is the main “lump” of the network.
Texas is one of the most vulnerable places on Earth to global warming, already hot and humid and battered by big hurricanes. 🥵
In Texas last year…
Climate killed 306 people
Cancer killed 46,300 people
How would you allocate spending across these two problems? 🤔
Now, should we compare actual climate change budgets with oncology research budgets? 😖
Today 1 in 6 people die early because of cancer.
How much propaganda do you have to absorb to be more passionate about fighting CO2 than fighting cancer? I am curious.
Yes, you should think about what is required to recover from a loss.
eg
10% loss requires 11% growth to recover
25% loss requires 33% growth to recover
33% loss requires 50% growth to recover
50% loss requires 100% growth to recover
66% loss requires 200% growth to recover
75% loss requires 300% growth to recover
90% loss requires 900% growth to recover
Losing 25% is recoverable in 5 years, but if you lose half or more, you’re in Tiger King territory.
Ugh, my follows follows (not followers).
Think again.
If you are brand new and you followed 2 people, then my follows followers feed would likely include 500 people.
So it’s a massive aid to discovery. Much better than what we do now.
My follows follows initially grows very quickly and then plateaus out as you reach diminishing returns.
To be clear…
I follow 300 pubkeys
10^2
My follows follow 17,000 pubkeys
There are 10,000 human MAU’s
10^4
There are 1,000,000’s of pubkeys.
10^6
My follows follow is the best and most elegant filter to approximate on human DAU’s.
Instead almost all clients offer me feeds of either my 300 follows OR the 1,000,000’s of pubkey universe.
Give me a 10^4 feed! Do it in a simple way that an old lady’s cat can understand.
The best algorithm for a feed is very simple.
>Show my follows + their follows.
That’s it. No real person in the network follows spammers, that is the filter. If anyone starts to follow a spammer I can simply unfollow the idiot.
This immediately results in a self correcting mass of a network. Whether we see this soon or much later, this is the most elegant way and will ultimately be where we end up.
TLDR: AI companies go to White House to lobby for a regulatory moat.
No that’s not how it works. It is inextricably tied to the value of the currency.
The existence of a budgetary deficit mandates debasement of the currency.
If the deficit becomes a larger fraction of the economy then inflation accelerates and Americans pay the debt via inflation.