Influencoors are very successful on centralized platforms because they’re getting paid by brands and stuff, and the platforms love that shit so they play along and boost engagement since it’s centralized and manipulable, and all those participants get rich and happy off the sad poor peasants

Brands can do that here too… kinda. Primal’s an interesting example because they sort of are their own platform (see the whole de-platforming saga with nostr:npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkj nostr:npub12z8jsett3k6rv9fa2guau5p540qr2xuvjzkr8e432mglafjt99sqkw9zmx and nostr:npub1ezw0xm0w52rd4yfdg9zlw9qvwdy46alzelklkefptrd203m37tuq4djmeg and whoever else). But it’s a lot more of a challenge bc we don’t have to use primal. It still comes up into other clients of course but it’s just never gonna be as strong i don’t think

Of course i hope someday enough people use nostr that general content creators can be on nostr only. But whether that will happen i have no idea

What stands out to me here and now though, is that people do what i can only describe as “zap shaming” making the average user feel guilty for the amount they zap, and i think that’s counter-productive if anything. 

Some people are wholecoiners, some are whales, some have good jobs, some don’t even have a real utxo yet. It varies a lot. There is no amount that anyone should expect anyone else to zap. Subjectivity like this is just an unavoidable and generally unknowable component of value for value. So i don’t like zap shaming, i don’t think it helps anyone.

Maybe i’m just an annoying bastard bc most of my zaps are only 7 sats and private. But i’m no whale and when something really impacts me i zap moar. I don’t see the issue here.

Nostr’s adoption and success depend on other stuff a lot more imo