516 sats \ 3 replies \ @Scoresby OP 30 Jan \ parent \ on: When you post/comment on SN, do you think about how many sats you will earn? meta
I hadn't thought about the zapping as the sole button on SN. I am definitely guilty of defaulting to shakas on nostr because, well, I can have the interaction and have my sats too.
I think the beauty here is that sats are freedom of speech and they are also protection of work. Metaphorically it is the 1st and 2nd amendment in action.
The choice of value to add is:
- I like so I pay you in an instant. (you just made 0.00001 USD which in an hour would be $2.44 in sats which is a deflationary currency) Combine that with 20 others and that's $40 an hour. Not bad. Meaning that you potentially could be compensated for your time by continuing your positive behavior. It you grew your audience you would have more zaps per second. It's farming.
- I like but I don't want to zap so I respond with good information that I have to pay to share!
- I like and I can't zap, or comment but I can share somewhere else where my handle is recognized of I bring a new user.
Any of the above activities I can earn sats back from because I am actively gaming the playing field by positive participation and not driving focus to garbage.
- I can do all three above.
All of this is net positive, volunteer communication.
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It's crazy how slight differences like this (no likes on SN, only sats as a signal) can have emergent properties.
I like nostr as a protocol though. I just don't like how it's currently mostly used. I really think nostr crippled itself by embracing twitter-like experiences too soon. It might need a few years to recover from that.
But I am starting to sound biased I guess. Can't help myself though. I work on SN for a reason lol
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Nostr is a monster. It's good because someone can get attention and earn a small amount of sats or at least use them in the wild. The next move, like bitcoin is to learn how things work and start to build or promote. If some person is a half decent writer she can come in with 1000 sats and apply nostr skills to Stacked and she can triple her stack in a few days.
She could read Writer's market from the library and apply that here, too.
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