I think that’s a terrible idea honestly. Acting like social engagement information is some sort of enemy or something to be afraid of is only shooting ourselves in the foot, imo.

I just think that information should be weighed properly based on your social graph and trust metrics. Not thrown out.

It would be the equivalent, imo, to inviting people to a party but where you couldn’t see whether people were listening to anything you were saying, then when people start leaving because there’s no social reward for being there, the party hosts get mad that everyone is too shallow needing social feedback to know people are listening.

Maybe this isn’t the reason and I’m just assuming based on other conversations. But a lot of people worry about things around Nostr, and my big worry has always been that a lot of Nostr people seem to be bitter about the foundations of social protocols themselves. If people don’t realize that follow counts, views, likes, zaps, all of this public show of attention is a fundamental, evolutionary level part of what makes social networks enticing to so many, then we will be stuck forever as a “could have been” underdog.

Don’t mean to harp on this, but it’s been nagging me for a while and think it’s a big issue and I don’t think a lot of people here realize it. Ignoring it hurts #Nostr, imo. We should be *fixing* its problems, not pretending we aren’t social animals. 

 I agree. I wish I was a dev so I could help out, tho the devs currently are doing a lot of good work for sure. Much appreciated. I do hope Nostr succeeds