I personally like Nostr because there are a lot of genuine conversations with real people. I’m not here the get zaps but they are a bit of fun and a nice way for acknowledgement of content that you like.

I think there are people posting for monetizaton and there will be more of that as Nostr grows. I don’t have any issues with that and good luck to them. The difference here is that there is no algorithm pushing that content on anyone and we all choose who we follow and what to zap. So I think the way to optimise content for zaps is to post things that people actually want to see, will repost to keep visibility, and feel is worthy of zaps!

Building decentralized apps in a centralized OS gives them the power to censor and ban the apps whenever they want.

Even if it follows the rules they can change the rules anytime they want.

The more i read this apple guideline the more I realize it can be used to remove any bitcoin or p2p payment app at any time:

“Apps may enable individual users to give a monetary gift to another individual without using in-app purchase, provided that (a) the gift is a completely optional choice by the giver, and (b) 100% of the funds go to the receiver of the gift. However, a gift that is connected to or associated at any point in time with receiving digital content or services must use in-app purchase.”

Specifically:

“a gift that is *connected to or associated at any point in time* with receiving digital content or services must use in-app purchase”

This means when users start saying “zap me with your email to receive my art”. Then this would give apple an excuse remove Damus at any time, even with only profile zaps. This is true of every p2p payment app as well from what I can tell.

Not to mention: “100% of the funds go to the receiver of the gift”. So what about miner fees? Apple could argue miner tx fees on bitcoin txs violate their guidelines. This also means damus splits + support star are very much not allowed and they won’t be pushed to the app store 🥲

Overall everything is very vague which gives apple the ability to remove your app for any reason. Fun

The other platforms are all about monetization now. There are no genuine conversations because being yourself is not allowed. Everyone just projects this fake image of themselves, always perfect and always happy. We know that’s not how humans are.

That Boss…

Serge Gainsbourg

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Could you imagine if Copernicus and Galileo had to go up against the Church, Google, Social Media, and AI?

We’d still be at the center of the universe.