Anthony Accioly @Anthony Accioly - 1mo
IMO, zaps are just a tool. Yes, at the moment, between all the ad bots and "Nostr influencers", there are some bad incentives to exploit random anons’ naivety on Nostr. But on the other side of the equation, it also attracts artsy people, craftsmen, etc., which brings a special kind of life to Nostr. Pubky is heading the "no zapping" route, and I respect their experiment. But IMO, zapping isn’t inherently bad. What we need is to flood Kind 1 with more content until the whole BTC Twitter thing and its toxicity is reduce to a less significant portion of Nostr’s content. From my previous experience on how this usually goes: when the current Nostr influencers lose control of "Primal trending" (or whatever the trending of the day is), they’ll create smaller bubbles for themselves. If I had to guess, we’ll end up with some "BTC Maxi" Ditto servers, only accessible to the "enlightened". Some may even end up in a totally separate "Nostr fork but not Nostr" network, like Gab, Truth Social, etc. It’s not that I wish for Nostr hard forks, like what happened with Mastodon, but this is usually what happens. When you take the megaphone away from an annoying, dominant but otherwise small group, they’ll find a way to keep holding that megaphone in a smaller room.
