Key IMO if you’re not famous is to post some based shit with which people connect. Articulate the truth that everyone is thinking but haven’t yet put clearly into words.
If you can do that, Nostr will reward you. Creating “content” or “journalism” is just busy work. It has to speak to people to get over the hurdle. Otherwise they’ll just zap famous people instead.
quotingPresently zaps are a way to show loyalty to the most popular people on Nostr. They reinforce existing hierarchies and social norms in the space. Zaps are not working for Creators or Journalists unless those creators and journalists talk about Nostr or Bitcoin.
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Exhibit A: this quote post which is opaque but said by someone with clout receives more zaps than over half of the creators combined in the Nos Creator residency.
Why are we zapping a billionaire more $$ but not zapping people who are making original content on Nostr?
If we train an LLM on Nostr today - 100 people would get all the zaps and everyone else would get pennies which is what the current fiat system has evolved into.
If the goal instead is to use AI behind the scenes to improve the ledger / accounting then we need to ask how the llm was trained and by who and have transparency about the connections to it etc.
Lots of people have experimented w/ micropayments for journalism and they have all been unsuccessful for various reasons. When it comes to social media and journalism, the payment experience is in the wrong place - meaning it’s before the link is clicked, rather than onsite after the article / media has been consumed. Nostr potentially solves this bc it supports long form content within the ecosystem but first journalists/ news orgs need to migrate to Nostr.
And they will not do that if we keep zapping hot takes about how cool Nostr is instead of original, thought provoking content.
Instead of zapping this reply find a journalist or news outlet and zap their content!