as i see it, zaps are just a harbinger of actual business

web of trust, and reactions are much more important to social relevance and receiving a sense of being valued

i find it funny, because i remember you and stella as two of the most important blatherers that i wanted to read the blatherations of

and it won't stop being that way, i love you two

real measures of "karma" don't have a monetary feature to them, they are literally about engagement and things that even a modern AI would hard pressed be able to recognise 

 that's funny you say that, because i feel the same way about the two of you. i couldn't make sense of Nostr until I saw a campfire burning of Stella's conversations with the Grumpy Cat and then it was magical. Stella seems character from a Jane Austen novel moonlighting on technical projects in another century, and you seem like a reincarnation of the mad hatter. and the rest of us are just Alices stumbling through the worlds ya'll are creating.