Leo Wandersleb on Nostr: I mentioned you in this note: ...
I mentioned you in this note:
which got exactly one reaction and no comments and now you are basically building what I proposed? I'm a bit confused but hope others jump onto this, too.
quoting nevent1q…k8ynverbiricha (npub107j…ncxg) is working on a client there?
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To my understanding it's using zaps as the only way to reply which has several down sides. Many users are not zap enabled either as sender or receiver and the zap event is sent by the LN node, not the author of the zap and you don't have threads. Of course, all this could be fixed with nut zaps but these are custodial - which most of normal zap wallets are, too.
That made me think of the situation over at Xitter:
A bunch of people try to get heard and stick out from the herd by paying $8/month (and doing some KYC) but it turns Xitter in a mere two-tier society. Now when some big influencers like Elon post something, there are always thousands of replies by top tier users, so "get heard for money" doesn't work neither.
What I want for nostr:
I want to be able to "boost" notes. As opposed to zapping the note, the zap would have to go somewhere else to signify an actual expenditure. On a reply to Alice, boosting should obviously pay to Alice for her to notice it but for top posts, boosting by zapping nostr infrastructure providers would be one possible choice.
This would be an incentive to implement this type of boosting in clients like nostrudel (npub1wyu…87ez) primal (npub12vk…pugg) or jb55 (npub1xts…kk5s)'s clients. These clients could offer an option with every note posted to include a boost and provide a beneficiary dropdown, putting their own favorites on the top of the list but allowing to put any npub there.
People want to get heard and currently there is no way to get heard a bit more for money in nostr. Yes, big zaps make a bit of waves but when getting this attention, it might often even not be desired as the primary purpose was not to boost a message but to tip/support a creator. The attention gets drawn to the deep pockets tipper, not to the cool creator.
In that sense, this new kind of boosting should be possible anonymously "somebody boosted this post 1Msat" and it should be possible to boost existing posts that way.
which got exactly one reaction and no comments and now you are basically building what I proposed? I'm a bit confused but hope others jump onto this, too.