Bridges could be built.

Bluesky is focused atm on purely social media. nostr is a lot broader than that in my view.

So I think they will be competitive and ideas will be copied between both.

Most important thing is we have multiple experiments and ideas all towards same goal, which is taking the balance of power out of centralized corps.

NIP-57 Zaps compatible wallets update:

#[0] has been added to the list!

strike.army

vida.page

stacker.news

Bitcoin Jungle

ln.tips (LightningTipBot)

Geyser

Bitcoin Beach

Wallet of Satoshi 👈 *NEW*

Reminder: All Lightning wallets can send Lightning tips on Nostr. Only the ones listed above are aware that Nostr exists and can communicate with Nostr, allowing for the Zap count on posts and profiles to increment.

Instagram is now charging $12 a month for an identity and a checkmark. NostrPlebs.com charges 12500 sats for a lifetime identity and checkmark. We will win.

Feels like Nostr is a black swan that the entire tech sector was not expecting. Walled garden platforms are going to be a thing of the past by the end of the decade.

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pv 🌞

nostr is what happens when you take too long to publish bluesky

Wikipedia definition of "zapping":

Channel surfing (also known as channel hopping or zapping) is the practice of quickly scanning through different television channels or radio frequencies to find something interesting to watch or listen to.

I like the fact we are totally rewriting and powering this word's meaning switching from a passive flat attitude to a partecipative, aware and v4v one.

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There's someone furiously writing a dummies guide to Nostr at the moment 🤣

I think zaps will incentivize the opposite.

If you want to reward people on nostr, you already can with simple LN tips. Nobody has to know, other than you and the recipient. If you want the recipient to know it was from you, you can send a DM, a reply or add a comment in the LN payment.

Simple, private, elegant.

Zaps, since they're public, bring other incentives (vanity, peer pressure, perceived importance of highly-zapped notes or profiles, etc).

Influencers are already pushing it. Some are shaming wallet devs into integrating it. Memes are memed into existence and hype is hyped to the sky.

Soon you will have a sea of people on nostr who see zaps as inherently valuable.

In such a world, whoever can fake zaps is king. Whereas "plebs" have to earn zaps backed by real sats, sent by real people -- such an individual could "print" themselves some, and get all the social clout for free.

Turns out anyone can do that. There are two ways:

1. Since zaps are not "anchored" in LN (the same way LN is anchored in BTC onchain), one can receive zaps without having received any LN payment. Its a matter of publishing the right kind of events to the relay.

2. A different way is you can zap yourself from different (sockpuppet) accounts. You could recycle 1 sat endless times, and increment your "zap counter" as much as you like.

So not only are zap incentives skewed, but they're also an unreliable metric. Anything that can be measured in zaps (appreciation? relevance of a post?) can be gamed, because received zaps can be faked.

In addition, they're distracting people from the simple and effective LN tips, which don't suffer from any of the above.

The global feed today: OnlyNips’nZaps

not sure if I understand you correctly. But the selected account in the extension is the same in all tabs.

If a client builds a note with key A and you sign it with key B then it gets typically rejected from the relays.

Nostr clients need to improve the UI a bit for multi accounts. hamstr.to is doing that already quite well.