Beautiful

Im zapping interesting and funny posts with very little (21, 42, 69, etc) and around 666 sats for the musicians if they're metal 🤘🏼

Mostly photos, I think, landscapes, travel, souvenirs, animals... as long as it's original content, it can get a Zap from me The same goes for those who share their work or their passion. Conversely, I hardly Zap any content that can be found everywhere or has already been read 1000X (for example, most basic posts about BTC, with a curve or a meme), no advertising, nothing political (especially when the author talks about his government as if he were the leader of the world, without even saying where he is 😅).

People used to zap a lot more a few years ago. What happened?

I love the idea of zaps coming and going!

I’m down. Got some hate5six live metal shows on rn. Pain of Truth Drain Haywire Terror lots of good stuff. 🤘

Yeh. Original content is valued here. 😀

I’m fairly new to Nostr. Also : a wallet to zap ⚡️ helps.

Yep. Zapping is circular economics I think. 🤔

What is the point of zapping, when you can just like/share a post? Liking/sharing costs no money, but it also releases dopamine for the receiver. So I see no reason in zapping.

Fundamentally you’re getting paid and it’s a direct and meaningful endorsement. The like means less because it literally costs less. a zap⚡️ is real

Getting dopamine from likes on socmedia is a solid way to let your brain rot👀 I see value in them when you're an influencer and such, but why emulate twitter when we can do something really valuable? Nostr is in the beginnings, but if 10.000 followers gave a zap to an artist, there wouldn't be a need for that artist to bother them with ads and other trash. Zap cuts out the middle man.

- Like button - "I will click it even it is probably not the best suff I have seen today. But it is free of charge, I can give thousands of likes daily." = what is the value of such like for me? - zap - "sending my own money, will really think whether I like it or not" = this person liked it so much, he paid me his own money

I use 21 sats to zap ⚡️ currently about 3 cents Sats are valuable but they’re particularly appreciated by our community. I’m not sure how to value a like - but I’m guessing it’s less than 3 cents. 😀

I do use the like button as well. When I don’t necessarily endorse it the same way but I want the poster to know it was actually seen.

Still, they are your money. Anybody receiving your 3c knows, that this "like" is not among thousands of others. Even it is just 3c, I believe, you think before sending "is it really valuable for me?"

Yeah. I mean it’s organic in that I just get zap happy when I see something compelling enough to zap. ⚡️ It works tho. I’m both happy to zap and I’m happy to be zapped.