The great thing about stacker news is that zaps completely replace likes.

On nostr you have to make a cognitive decision whether to like or zap - and when you're forced to think about that choice it reminds you one of them is free and the other isn't.

Nostr would be much better without the regular likes and just the zaps.

People are more generous than ever here on SN, as shown by my recent SN post.

Nostr is just too large a space currently. Smaller communities within Nostr will foster more sat sharing IMHO. In 2022, Nostr posts were going crazy here. It’s time will come again.

Currently the sense of connection with personalities & topics of interest is lacking in clients, and that is perhaps showing its face in the zaps.

Just another random thought. It's funny people are so excited to zap the richest people on nostr. Literal BILLIONAIRES.

As a damus mobile user on my main nostr account the zapple pay integration is much more cumbersome than the initial zap feature that apple made them shut down. That's part of it and I think the thrill is gone.

Growth & change my man. Growth and change

If Nostr clients had zap-ordered views of content, then maybe people would zap in order to bump up the good stuff. The reverse chronological timeline is more about quantity than quality.

zaps are more valuable now ;) and the recession in some parts is not helping either, I guess. is it your impression? or is it possible to see this data somewhere:?

They move here. (joke)

Look at the bottom. Reward pool has increased since I came here

I noticed that since a few months back, I think the initial new fun thing faded, and there are not many incentives for people to zap on Nostr because there is like a million posts every day with random things. Here in SN it works, people interact on specific topics, they give opinions, they help and people pay for value. Nostr is like anarchy.

Be the change you want to see in the world!

I’m a zap addict ZAP

I think Nostr is too ego-focused. On SN you have to care a bit about the content to read the author's name and even then it's just cold blue lettering. I wonder what it'd be like if Nostr accounts started removing their profile images in service of the content. I prefer to reward good content rather than egos. It's sad what @joda said about people zapping the billionaires.

Sats are more and more expensive in fiat currencies, so I guess people think twice before they zap. Same for fountain, it’s paying out literally single digits sats now. Bitcoin Magazine app died around ETF approval already (at least in my case).

The hype died off. Hopefully it will come back again

Yeah I noticed that too. Don't know what happened. Stinginess? novelty worn off? tbf, i use Amethyst on android and about 50% of the time I get an error message when I try to zap, so I wonder if other people are running into zapping probs and have just given up.

Nostr clients need to remove the like buttons. It's self-sabotaging. Nostr value, censorship-resistance, is largely enabled by bitcoin, through zaps.

This is what SN has gotten right from the start.

Yeah, the zapping is less, but I assume a lot of people went over to bluesky.

I've noticed this as well. We definitely need some beautiful+user friendly zap-only apps to start getting over this fiat "likes" craze

tolerable 😆 just pray it doesn't come to be like The Great Depression

I still zap on nostr. if I wanted to like posts, I'd use Facebook

If Nostr becomes much similar to SN, would that be good? Yes, the idea about replacing like 'heart' with Bitcoin 'B' may prove far better.

"Stack SATs, ZAP Regularly and Stay Humble"