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The introduction of badges changed Reddit for me. The psychological need to continue using Reddit to continue my daily streak is strong.

I noticed this after the first few badges. 5 days 10, 20, 30, etc. I wanted to keep going because I was getting notifications that I was completing something special.

After earning a couple badges, I found myself forcing myself to use Reddit every day just to keep my streak alive. Then, badges started to become more rare in quality as the streak day count increased. I wanted to collect them all! I wanted to see if I could earn the legendary ones. 365 days? 500 days? Hell yeah!

I don't particularly care about Reddit all that much. Most days I'd be fine just reading. I don't need to upvote or downvote. Or at least I thought I didn't? Badges changed that for me.

I see this with my children, especially my daughter. Her and her friends all use Snapchat to communicate. She cares about keeping her streaks alive with friends. It's a silly little indicator in Snapchat, just like Reddit, that keeps pulling people back in.

I know that we all recognize the issues with legacy social media. I know these tactics are meant to keep bringing us back, so that the algorithms can keep us enraged and engaged, to steal our attention. We can do better!

It's no secret that user retention is horrible across the Nostr ecosystem. Could a Nostr client implement something similar to these streak badges without the negative aspects to keep people coming back? Definitely.

Nostr doesn't have evil algorithms. (Someone could build one though. It's an open protocol!) I believe a developer could implement a similar feature to draw people back into their application. We have a badges spec. The badge could be automatically assigned and displayed on the user profile as their engagement increases.

I guess technically this doesn't even need to be implemented by a specific client. Someone could essentially write a DVM for this, right? This would be a large task though. The DVM could use the nostr.band API or search.nostr.wine API or something similar to do this and assign these streak badges automatically across "all of Nostr" or even just a specific set of relays. Relay operators could implement something such as this too. It's all possible.

Thoughts?

https://nostrcheck.me/media/3f770d65d3a764a9c5cb503ae123e62ec7598ad035d836e2a810f3877a745b24/127a45c2a1e4a754ea7d00f860ed8eafd0f45dcac7b7f9794b51d717e58766c4.webp

Duolingo does the same thing and even more so when keeping your peers/family members accountable by sending them reminders to check-in for their daily education.

I don’t know what the use-case would be for Nostr but maybe a GM & pura vida check-in post to receive an automatic designated amount of zaps a day? The sats can come from a community pool of zaps accumulated from daily/weekly memes wars. Just spit-balling here. Or in honor of nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx, an ALL-CAPS post will award you an nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx badge and it’s up to you to keep a daily streak of badges

Really love having #Olas integrated into my daily driver. Contributing to a decentralized Nostr client instead of mainstream media with MY own nsec keys just feels powerful. Revolutionary!

#ProofOfWork #plebchain #POW

Money may make the world go round.

But meaningful connections with authentic people make the world feel sweeter.

Thank you for saying this!! They take a HUGE chunk of our income and the majority of the US is just like okay with it?? Then by the time we get our social security retirement fund between ages 62-70, we get a MONTHLY income (not a lump sum) of our earnings back up until the day we die while the US gov gets to keep the rest postmortem. Is it adjusted to inflation? NO! How is that fucking ACCEPTABLE!?

Time preference in the price of bitcoin may have had some influence with that. Now that we’re inching closer to 100k and beyond, people are taking “stack sats” much more seriously

Zapping 10k in sats today may become the next version of “BTC 10k for Pizza” day in 10 years from now. It’s wild to think about

You’re a real one. Don’t know if the average pleb would even consider doing that. Much respect for you!

Got 18+ years of emotional regulation to navigate through ahead of you. Go Dad!

Just watched the first 3 over the last few days and I agree, it’s the best one so far. From a plot perspective, Prisoner of Azkaban is pretty much like all the other movies when compared to the book series. Plenty of plot points left out and several inconsistencies. But from a visual craftsmanship perspective it’s the best by far.

Because this is the book where everything really elevates for the HP world. The movie managed to set just the right tone and thus is a perfect segway between the first two pretty feel-good and child-friendly movies to the later dark movies. And the choice to switch directors to Alfonso Cuaron was well fitting as it helped delineate the stark difference between Azkaban and the first two which really made it stand out to me. Not to mention I think it has one of the strongest plots and it was a lot of people's favorite books.

The camerawork is exquisite, with several pretty long scenes being shot in a single take with a single camera.

And Cuaron expertly worked in the movies overarching theme - the passage of time - into details throughout the movies. Clocks, pendulums, the whomping willow shaking of snow, seasonal changes, etc. It’s a masterpiece from a technical POV.

GM! what’s on your mind?