Zaps as a mechanism is potentially worse than Likes. You could argue in such an early stage of a social media it might cause topic/tone stagnation reinforcing bitcointwitterisms and further alienating anyone outside of that culture joining and staying, forced 'positivity', zapfarming etc etc. 

It's also not impossible to imagine say someone or an organisation with enough funding and incentive to steer/nudge and monetarily incentize certain kinds of posts by zapping. Not saying this is the case ATM, cos nostr doesn't really have enough of a userbase maybe to do that.

(But as I've often said I think we are the guineapigs, the beta testers of this whole project lol. We're sort of yet to see a proper v4v social media scenario here.)

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 I cant seem to zap this post. Lmk if you need help w/ setup 

 I stripped down my profile. For aesthetics lol. But thanks anyway;) 

 Underrated note.
And I 100% agree.
I think Zaps are not as useful as bitcoiners naively think.
They become a little like likes anyway, bc they feel like random points (doesn’t feel like real money) and to Rabble’s point, points generally get allocated toward clickbait & sensationalism.
You can only do so much with a single like, but you can really skew things by throwing a bunch of meaningless “points” at it (and yes - at this stage, zap sats are pretty meaningless) 

 Yes, totally agree with it being fuzzy Points. It's not the great 'signal' people often claim it is here. Doesn't create a new social (media) dynamic, you can still see eg parasocial zapping lol. Perhaps zaps have an element of old facebook's Poke thrown in too. 

 Yeah but it's the restraint chair I'm really worried about. 

 Yeah but it's the restraint chair I'm really worried about.