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How are your Nostr lives going? How does it compare to Twitch?

It’s fun getting to know more people in the Bitcoin space through my Nostr stream. The only annoying thing is that some things are still pretty buggy or delayed, but I understand it’s still early and everything till get improved over time.

Is it messages that are buggy and delayed? Like sometimes don't appear in your feed like you'd expect? I sometimes experience that too. If there were any killer things Nostr could add that Twitch would never, what would they be?

On Primal, DMs are sometimes delayed, and even now my DM tab shows two messages but nothing appears. On zap.stream, some messages don’t show up at all, or the dashboard doesn’t load properly. Both on Zap and when trying to access streams on Primal, they don’t always open. If I were to add one feature, it would probably be zap-based subscriptions that give viewers access to emotes and a chat badge like on Twitch. Maybe something like on-chain supporter badges ..permanent, Bitcoin-verified collectibles tied to your Nostr pubkey. When you subscribe via Lightning, you get a badge showing your total sats contributed and tier. It’s yours forever and visible across Nostr, not controlled by any platform :)

Awesome ideas. Zap based subscriptions and badges is very doable. I will take a look at how Twitch does it.