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Guy Swann
@TheGuySwann
Idea:

What if you could set a price to have someone you weren’t following, and who wasn’t in your social circle, to be able to put their post in your feed? Obviously with options to filter as you saw fit, but simply a way to have people reach you if they wanted to expand their network and visibility.


It would essentially be boosting except you aren’t paying a centralized platform, you are paying the people directly to accept it. Similar to “zapvertising,” except not in a zap message or DMs, just to cross into their line of sight while on Nostr 🤔

Good idea, bad idea? Discuss…
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Karnage · 64w
Why pay though? If you found their content wouldn’t you share it anyway? We need better discovery of new users I think that doesn’t involve paying to play. It’s an interesting idea but has a bit of a dirty feel to it.
Dikaios1517 · 64w
Interesting idea. Might be a bear to implement, though, and it would have to be implemented by the majority of clients in order to be useful. Otherwise, users might pay to have their note put into nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx's feed, is a feature that a few c...
Karadenizli · 64w
But why would you pay to insert in their feed instead of just DMing or mentioning them? It would only be useful if they explicitly say that they read all paid posts, but at that point they might as well just make a pay to DM feature.
the axiom · 64w
one could put a price but then not see anything
Tommy Volk · 64w
Everyone here is discussing whether this is a good or bad idea, but I’m wondering if it’s even possible. I don’t think advertising really works without centralization. On decentralized protocols, advertisers have no knowledge or control of the advertisee’s client software, which could simply...