Oddbean new post about login | logout I like when the reality of the protocol forces us to think about better ways to represent things like follow counts. Trying to copy centralized concepts is not going to work on a decentralized network. Luckily realizations like this will push us in a much better direction: measuring meaningful connections between individuals and displaying that instead. nostr:note145xkt4qhgphmvj6ls9llw70zz0llfkg5ypek6w9myadk467nx8ysu5r6jz
you ever thought abt removing like & follower counts? nostr:note1ve03fs7dh6lp2w5g8w6qz9w56em3nrf7xpm6h70q9ht5jgv3806s9sdx29
I think we need to move on from follow counts to something better Google+ had circles Facebook, Orkut and Myspace had friend lists LinkedIn has connections They all emphasized on displaying only relationships that were two-way. That is better and makes contact lists less of a popularity contest.
Jb55, Define a follower by amount of money ( zap) will weed out the bot accounts. To prevent fake and manipulation by zapping around and passing around zaps: I propose we do this: 1) only count followers on highly respected and trusted Nostr clients( by Nostr community) , 2) each zap amount to from account A to B to establish a following must be higher than 5000 sats ( example amount) and the Nostr client charges a zap fee ( to be a follower ) each time to prevent fake zapping chain and circle ( say 5% or fixed amount) and 3) optional ( maybe not necessary), the followed person should have a verified website linked to npub. This will help establish true trust. Nostr can do this to compete with X, YouTube, etc.
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 The follower account game is an old and outdated one, imo.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