We live in an age where a person with zero programming skills can shake up an entire industry with an idea and 5 minutes of spare time.

Very exciting time to be alive!

I think I will stop doing as many zaps, one because it costs a lot and I feel a lot is wasted. And two it creates fake engagement and fake relationships with people.

Better to keep zaps more sparingly and meaningful when you do zap.

I believe the reactions signal is actively harmful to content creators. It doesn’t signal if the content has any value. Only zaps can do that. Anyone can spam reactions with a bot

they are zero effort/lazy. If there is no lazy interaction option you are forced to engage (reply, share, send value), or ignore. Just the existence of the reaction diminishes real engagement

Im not so sure

Sometimes I just don’t feel like zapping, but want to express something. It’s nice to have that choice.

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is notedeck the only client that has zapping without reactions ? its pretty nice. I'm wondering why we even need reactions now.

I think reactions can absolutely be done away with, if only one reaction option is available, such as ❤️ or 🤙. A zap already tells me that you "like" the post, and even tells me how much you like it, based on how you zapped.

However, if there are a wide range of reactions available in the client, then reactions can still have value and provide additional context. They can tell me you found the post to be humorous 🤣, surprising or mind-blowing 😮 🤯, or that you found it to be an astute observation 💯 🎯. This is all context that the zap alone does not necessarily provide.

There is also no way to give a negative reaction as a zap, such as 🤮, 😡, 😭, or 🙄. There's an argument to be made that taking out negative reactions is a feature, not a bug, but I think we also lose quite a bit by not having the wide range of positive reactions, too.

This was 2 taps. It takes at least 5 taps to get custody. Most folks are told with vigor to be as lazy as possible though.

now that we got the boring stuff mostly out of the way (microblogging) we can start doing the fun stuff

Periodic reminder that your relays see absolutely EVERYTHING you do on Nostr. Regardless of which Client you use. They literally see the app downloading zaps, replies, and reactions when you scroll your posts in real time.

So... MAKE SURE TO KNOW WHO THEY ARE and that you TRUST THEM with that information.

Nostr is just like a browser. The server has to know what you want to see to send it to you, and that gives them the power to track you and see what you are asking for. There is no way around it.

I can't stress this enough.

Must. Not. Feed. Trolls.

We were right . . . again.

We need to address this and work towards building consensus. The ecosystem feels somewhat fragmented and unclear, largely because the specification being implemented is frozen and resides in a pull request, making it difficult for everyone to fully understand. This often leads to custom implementations. However, this is a broader issue with the NIPs themselves tho. Dvmdash calls can be a good opportunity to discuss these challenges and make the specification evolve. Wdyt?

too much opinion, more shipping