TheGuySwann on Nostr: Why have likes, zaps, reposts, etc? They are social signals to filter and/or measure ...
Why have likes, zaps, reposts, etc? They are social signals to filter and/or measure the potential relevance of content and people. If there’s something that works better then sure it’d be great, but knowing that 10k people follow someone, while another has 40 followers is, in fact, useful. Same as when scrolling through 100 comments you might stop on one with a ton of likes to find it’s fucking hilarious & didn’t have to read an hour of garbage to find it.
The social networking sphere has 1,000,000x the data, people, comments & posts as what anyone can possibly navigate. All the “social signal” tools are just imperfect shortcuts to sorting through the ocean of social media to find relevance. 🤷🏻♂️
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