0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheBTCManual 22 Feb 2023 \ on: Do zaps incentivise group think or useful discourse? bitcoin
Like anything we give humans, we will find a way to abuse it until we come to a healthy relationship with it and then there will always be a cohort of nutters that simply lose themselves in it, that's just my summation of what I've seen on traditional social media and I think it will roll over into Nostr and the monetary aspect will supercharge certain things
I do think zaps foster groupthink and self-censorship because you don't want to upset the apple cart because it could mean losing out on zaps, like how when influencers get big they clean up so they don't lose followers and try to have a healthy churn where those that see their cookie cutter content is boring and leave, but the there are always new ones joining who are just there because well this person has a high follower account.
I think that zaps are a novelty that will wear off eventually with time, right now its a new tool, people want to try it out but we get used to it and later the zaps will dry up and people will not zap just about anything unless they want to make a statement or attract some sort of attention
I think that there will be all sorts of weird and wonderful ways, to zap farm and this is only the beginning also a lot of people will get scammed out of their sats and that's just a reality