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Holy shit, I think I just realized a direct and concrete way that I’ve personally experienced to how #Nostr completely changes the social incentives: • Rage and hateful posts on Twitter get the most attention. • Positive and happy posts on Nostr get the most zaps. It really was just monetization all the time. When attention is the currency, negativity and hate rise to the top because the platforms need people arguing. When sats directly from peers are the currency, value rises to the top. (Anyone else feel they’ve had this same experience?)

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nicely put! can you help me close this gap in my thinking - web2 discovery mechanisms served content which held the users attention the longest. long app usage times = more ad revenue. in nostr, positive and happy posts get the most zaps - i hear you so does it mean that we were following the chasing the wrong metrics all along? i suppose crypto’s ability to incentivise sustainable hyper local growth means we no longer need to scale to a billion users for every app? hyper local sustainable economies is the way?
I think it's the lack of algorithm that does that, more than anything else. I've noticed that Facebook seems to show my posts primarily to those most likely to be angered by them, rather than to those most likely to appreciate them. And then because the algorithms are also built "the rich get richer" style (those with more interaction stay higher in the feed) that feeds into itself. I miss the time-based feeds (esp. on Pinterest) that allowed little-known content to be discovered if you logged on at the right time to see it.