kolby / Kolby is on Nostr

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2023-04-25 07:10:09

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No problem! I love conversations like these.
So the main problem is that if it’s on a per relay or client basis, the relays and the clients are incentivized to act as middlemen and have advertisers pay them instead of users. After all, running popular relays and developing / maintaining clients isn’t free.
There’s the idea that clients could still make money from advertisers by providing custom advertiser tailored clients.
But all that have stuff has been done with web2.0 social media and advertisers pay platforms not users.
So there has to be a better incentive to make sure advertisers want to pay users directly instead of the platform. I think the only way to do that is make the method that pays users have higher returns on engagement than normal engagement from platforms showing users ads.
If a user were more likely to click through an ad link, follow an account, repost something by being paid to see it first., advertisers might be more inclined. Micro-sponsorships!
Again this can apply to any account, not just traditional advertisers. This could work in the form of a special kind of DM or tagged post where the account sending the post would be required to send a zap along first in order for the receiving user to get it, like public DMs, this could be set on and off by users if they chose to have no ads.

2023-04-25 06:18:23

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I think first we should pay people for their time and attention.
In order for people to be more comfortable with the idea of giving up hard earned sats for a meme they genuinely enjoyed or a well constructed post such as this one, people must see their own time and attention as valuable in order to probably value other peoples time and effort.
A simple example would be to allow advertisers to directly advertise to target users, but instead of paying the platform with users to show ads for them, the advertiser has control over who is shown their ads and the money they would normal pay to the platform is instead paid out to the target users via zaps.
Users who engage with ads would be more likely to receive future ads, and ads would be more targeted to things you’re actually interested in.
This could extend beyond normal advertising and be used by influencers or just normal people who want to boost a particular post.
I think a system like this, along with the ability to zap content you think is worthy makes for a space that would have less free-riders and encourage a circular economy where everyone’s time is valued accordingly.

2023-01-25 14:34:37

Good morning, Nostr

2023-01-24 22:31:06

Nostr is pretty cool man, feels like one big family group chat.

2023-01-24 00:11:19

What does the 5/7 or sometimes 6/7 mean in the top right corner of the Damus app?