I liked your post in advance of replying as a way of demonstrating that I am replying in a non-adversarial way.
That's the use for likes on NOSTR.
Not all posts are zap worthy.
Text based communication has a tendency to fall short of its intended outcome on a pretty regular basis from what I've seen. People communicate poorly often. Leading a reply with a like is a way of mitigating misinterpretation of ambiguously worded replies in the mind of the person to whom the reply is directed.
RedTailHawk
npub1z4…6zpx6
2025-04-14 16:55:51
in reply to nevent1q…aj4m
Author Public Key
npub1z4y76jl8r5d8p63defzedngv2nrp46jgt3hyuk5v533htrycm49q66zpx6Published at
2025-04-14 16:55:51Event JSON
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