Yes, that's why I'm here and talking with you. I'm hoping you can express a position so that we can have a negotiation in the free market of ideas. Personally, I think psychoanalyzing manipulation and misaligned influences is a waste of time. I just don't believe that zaps are good things to give, accept, or waste time implementing on a microblogging platform.
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It’s a supply of goods (zaps) making a demand of value (good content) on a peer network.
What’samattayou?
It’s more archly libertarian than likes as a free market negotiating means of exchange between peers on a network because it depends more on what you have than on who you are. Sovereignty as ownership and patronage rather than sovereignty as personality traits and reputation.
Free markets require the ability to appraise value. However the value of Nostr notes is impossible to objectively appraise, just like the value of friendship. When you start paying for these things, you are signalling that you don't care about the less tangible values and you undermine the interaction. That's why paying people to be your friend is not exactly a free market win. Just like paid shills, or people who only talk with you because you agree with them and stroke their ego.
