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What did the ocean say to the beach? Nothing, it just waved. #dadjokes

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Def a lot to unpackage and to think abt, not just based on technical implications, but also principles and impact. I don’t have an answer but here are some thought processes :

1. It helps to keep track of who you follow / follows you - but this doesn’t have to public

2. It helps to show if the profile page you view indicates ‘follows you’

3. It’s normal to do profile check before you follow.

- Who they are, interest, communication behaviour (as it impacts your feed and notification).

- On Twitter you see whom among those you follow, follows this person. This is good because you build your own tribe.

- On Iris, you can hover over the colour badge and see the # instead.

- Externally there is linkedin, Google search. As pretentious and grossed out linkedin is, often it builds trust and confidence (as opposed to if you are a ‘nobody’)

However, crowd persuasion can also be dangerous

- You fuel in narcissism of a populist

- You fuel in the need to want to be a populist

- you also see this in leadership, religion, cults and it can be used for good and bad

Are there benefits in being a populist ?

- It’s gonna be harder to bully someone who has access to a large crowd.

- You get to push a mission forward faster.

- But once it becomes centralised controlled, it can get harmful

For influencer, populist

- Numbers and metrics sells.

- As Nostr grows, content creation becomes crucial.

I think there is just so to think abt - would be risky to come to a conclusion quickly. I also think #[3] would be the best to share with us on his thoughts between regular usage vs what influencers seek, whereby the latter can also be adapted for artist payments, commerce, crowdfunding etc

Working on a web client now. I think we’ll have mode that turns off all counters and tabulations for following, followers, likes, and zaps. You could still see those things but a summary wouldn’t be available on profiles or notes.

Pura Vida mode.

See you in Costa Rica.

Instant LN sats payments can also transform paywalls. Instead of trying to sell a full subscription a publisher could sell an article. A frictionless transaction for small amounts that wouldn’t be feasible through a credit card transaction would be interesting.

Should there be zap receipts for notes that you have zapped? Could attach below the note and seen by the zapper. Could also have a zapped history.