In terms of a balance. On the leaderboard you can see how much you stacked and spent for the day. It will include the rewards you got from the day before under stacked but you can just subtract those out if you want to know the balance.
I wouldn't want people to know that I'm the one sending them sats, I like the privacy of zaps, you don't know where they come from or who sends them to you!
But would people zap more on nostr if it were private? Then again, I think I remember being able to do private zaps on nostr, so maybe that's not a big deal.
Public zaps also lend themselves to human verification which is important when sybils don't have much resistance.
But would people zap more on nostr if it were private?
Mhh, didn't think about this yet. So far, I was content with believing that there is less zapping on nostr (solely based on my own experience / anecdotal evidence) because there, zapping is basically just trusted charity vs on SN, there is better UX and clearer purpose via ranking and rewards.
Additionally, nostr is more about social graphs than SN so makes sense that zaps are public by default (like basically everything on nostr).
Then again, I think I remember being able to do private zaps on nostr, so maybe that's not a big deal.
Oh, yes, I forgot. I think I've also seen the option.
Great description of the differences between SN and nostr.
Because zaps aren't large economic amounts (often ranging from fractions of pennies to a dollar or so) it feels like public zaps would tilt the signal from zaps too far towards social and away from economic.
I wouldn't be looking at zap amount as much as zap amount + zap sender. Currently, when i see a post with 10k sats, I usually know it's going to be worth checking out, even if the title doesn't grab me. I really enjoy how clean this signal is.
I know SN is not pure economic signal (most sats != most seen content) and that trust plays a role. But I also like that I don't have to think about it too much. Private zaps facilitate this.
I wonder what it would be like if there was a mode of SN front page where the only thing you could see about posts was how much they had been zapped (no title, no stacker name, no date?). It might be an interesting content discovery mode.
I like the anonymity behind who zaps you alot. The fact that you can see peoples zap outflow to inflow ratio at the end of the day is enough for me to see who is generous.
satisticsthen click oncharts, it should be easy to determine how much money is going in and out for some unit of time.