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zap decline here is a vindication of szabo's point.
Although it may be what attracts many of us in the first place, stacking sats doesn't seem to me to be what people come to SN for.
I think it's a kind of game, really. Stacking sats in the game of SN makes a lot more sense than SN as a value for value platform.
Szabo seems to conclude that gamification is a different case, and that "fun" micropayments might be different.
Also: you and Szabo were the only ones to like the post about this on X. Maybe we will get him on here yet...
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HAHAH lol... him for vanity, me for algos (=Scoresby posts!) shoving content in my face
stacking sats doesn't seem to me to be what people come to SN for
do you mean "stay" here? Because they certainly come for the sats
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Yes, that is a good point. I should have said stay.
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Even building that audience is a different way of "giving art away for free" to become famous — and then try to monetize that size via donations (but really vanity, right, see it's other having their messages read or seen).
SN managed to bootstrap a high-zap equilibrium (as opposed to e.g., Nostr, which is shocking zap quiet these days) via rewards pool financed by ever-decreasing subsidies.
Prediction: zap decline here is a vindication of Szabo's point.