def found your vape 🔥🔥

Might have to make a version of the light coming out an ass 🤔🤔🍑⚡

Do you know the origins of this image ? This is the infamous "Panopticon".

Yes lol

Ha no no, it's fine. It was just in relation to some discussion and comments earlier re: BlueSky and The Vibecheck. Was just saying nostr has its own vibecheck mechanisms (although I think it's fair to say, as Will did, not at protocol level). Although, I would still say it exists at community level. It's just some pondering lol

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Defo, I dig the vibe. The free exchange of vibes, and to opt out of vibes , is the vibe.

Not that long, maybe a week? Probably not long enough to make any conclusion or notice any difference. There's a few zapless people out here. I've seen some people mention zaps are ruining nostr, which is a curious point. There might be a case for that, not sure. There is definitely a case for saying that zaps really aren't different to likes, and nostr doesn't operate outside of social media dynamics/phenomena because of zap. I feel quite sceptical about zaps being any kind of 'signal'. I've really not reached a conclusion tho, this are suspicions is all ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ View quoted note → #zaplesstr

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I' ve seen a contaiment building first. #nuclear bias. ☢️

The modern day version Jeremy Bentham's design is almost complete. FISA 702 was a big brick.

Michel Foucault on the Panopticon Effect:

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Michel Foucault on the Panopticon Effect

"He is seen, but he does not see; he is the object of information, never a subject in communication."

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Zaps as a mechanism is potentially worse than Likes. You could argue in such an early stage of a social media it might cause topic/tone stagnation reinforcing bitcointwitterisms and further alienating anyone outside of that culture joining and staying, forced 'positivity', zapfarming etc etc. It's also not impossible to imagine say someone or an organisation with enough funding and incentive to steer/nudge and monetarily incentize certain kinds of posts by zapping. Not saying this is the case ATM, cos nostr doesn't really have enough of a userbase maybe to do that. (But as I've often said I think we are the guineapigs, the beta testers of this whole project lol. We're sort of yet to see a proper v4v social media scenario here.)

Any excuse for me to repost this lol:

The nostr meta is fairly easy to play, not that it wouldn't be obvious and it's not interesting to follow, but it works. It is arguably somewhat incentivised by zaps. There's ebegging, which is too obvious, but then there is ebegging with a nostr-acceptable veneer. View quoted note → But even taking away the zap mechanics, there is also the quite horrible situation of having to appeal to the tastes of large owners accounts. Maybe less bad for people who happen to think along the same lines as them, be it ideolocally or humour etc. Maybe there's not enough upward mobility on nostr lol. Further compounded by the onboarding recommendations. More followers = More good, more followers = more read receipts, more read receipts = trending, and even more exposure. Most accounts have followers because they're carrying over clout from bitcointwitter, or theyre nostr devs (I don't mind this one acceptable actually), or they got here early and/or been blessed by the aforementioned for aligning with them somehow. A lot of the time. Stagnation. Meanwhile there I have actually found some notable new accounts quietly getting on with posting interesting stuff and looking for interesting stuff. If I may..... From the vaults:

Absolutely, nothing new about the scenario. (You do get this related notion tagged on tho that zaps are somehow a better signal or something, which I'm not really convinced by. The biggest evidence against this notion is the trending bar on primal. Which is often just likes and zaps-as-read receipts of big follow accounts).

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