Oddbean new post about login | logout This is what I'm most concerned about using Nostr. Privacy is the option to reveal your other identities to the world. I have chosen not to and fuck whoever tries to change that. Fuck whoever tries to correlate my Nostr behaviour to my other identities. And if I ever see a single embedded ad on my Nostr feed I will stop using that client immediately. Nostr is the last stand of humane social media. Client devs have the responsibility to defend that. I have spoken.
How about zapvertising?
V4V is what zaps are for, no? Announcing new useful things will get you zaps. This is true especially for the announcements regarding the client itself. The bigger the client is user-wise the more zaps the dev(s) will get for new announcements. There is no need for external ad revenues.
Assuming culture of zapping + culture of ensuring reach for dev posts, relatively unplutocratic economic distribution, and a large enough market share.
Yes, and I think those are fair assumptions to make. Culture of zapping is already present. Reach for dev posts is natural given the status and the power to change the UX (this happens on every platform, people are interested what the top dogs have to say). And if by large enough market share you mean a decent percentage of users related to X and other centralised platforms, then I would say there's some work to do but we'll get there! 🚀
Good point on devs changing ux... I meant that every unassuming private non-social non-marketing expert dev who is willing to forward release notes to nostr shall have a team of loyal beacons.
Yeah and when we ship GitNestr the devs can get zaps directly for their code instead of release notes. That's the goal at least.
What I mean is advertisers zap their prospects with ads. Pay the prospects directly instead of paying the platform, because there is no platform. Nostr users get paid, and they or their client pays for premium relays.
Oh, I see. The Brave browser model but with bitcoin instead of shitcoins. I don't know how I feel about that but it could work.
Is that how BAT works? I never cared to look. I see it as totally organic though. Zap someone and you can be sure you got their attention. And this could onboard noobs to bitcoin without them having to go exchange some fiat somewhere where the shitcoin scammers are waiting for fresh meat
Not exactly but it's a similar idea if I remember correctly. But I think I would mute zapverstisers too depending on how it would actually work. Being blasted with zads every time you interact with a note would be a big no for me.
The genius of big tech was understanding that marketing departments have the biggest budget and capturing that. It's just the way the world works. That money should be captured by users instead of platforms. Sure, block the zapvertisements but get paid by the zaps regardless.
Would you be willing for a premium subscription using sats? Lets be honest, open data and no company would manipulate that? Companies would pay dollars for this data. so clients are gonna show ads to keep building their projects especially small to medium ones. Large ones shall do it as well for profits ofcourse but thats how it goes.
Sure, sats for relays if need be. But no, if a client starts showing ads to keep building then it's time to build a new client without ads.