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Who’s the coolest person you share a birthday with?

One of the best thing on Nostr is to use 4-5 client Apps at the same time. Not all of them have all features.. which is great. Here's the reason to use each one of them..

1) Snort.social - Ability to add image on new post

2) Astral.ninja - Works great on Brave. lots of dev features such as to look at post JSON

3) Damus - View zaps by post, DMs and notifications.

4) Gossip - not worry about connecting to relays.. auto refresh and is not data hog

5) Current App - built in Wallet with one-click Zap, Post with images

Curious to know how others use Nostr...?

Next version you will be able to see who reported an account / yourself and for what.

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Someone sent me 55 sats 🎉

Thank you 🙏 who you are

I think that as long as you need to distribute money between influencers to get exposure and these influencers are bound to have integrity towards their crowd, or they lose that crowd, then such network promotion may strengthen the clear signal of value in a community and follow the "natural" formation of a social structure.

The problem starts when you pay a central platform administration to overexpose a message by breaking what the self-forming social structure dictates.

Nice idea but would it get abused?

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Here is a Chinese website offering Nostr spam for fee.

Iris rejects all content from authors that your social network has not interacted with. You get way less spam.

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We might add a separate paid one later, let’s see how spam goes

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.

Banks are closed but I just zapped hard money to the other side of the world without needing permission.

Biggest flex ⚡️