Zaps are a meaningful action, I feel they connect us even more so than followers. The follower account game is an old and outdated one, imo.
Zaps can be gamed just as well, everything needs web of trust and trust scoring as a foundation
Ah! I learned something.
Zaps can be hard to game if you also have to pay a cut to nostr clients when you zap. This makes zapping significantly less fake