37 sats \ 4 replies \ @ek 22 Jun freebie \ parent \ on: SN Ideas meta
I like the idea of having the option of attaching a message and/or revealing your identity. But default should always be private, yes.
This is also a detail where SN is the complete opposite of nostr which I find interesting. I don't see many complaining about it on nostr.
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.
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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.
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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.