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A “like” that has no value produces a signal that has no meaning. What if each “like” assigned cost you 0.1 warps? Or cost some fractional ownership of an NFT you own? Would a tiny bit of friction be so bad if produced a better signal?

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That's kind of my gut feeling, too. Something like a UBI of FID-bound likes allotted at some regular interval. Maybe each unused like expires concurrently with the next distribution of likes, such that no FID can ever have more than the amount of a single distribution, whatever that's set at for everyone.

It would be an interesting mechanic if people got an allowance of likes, maybe 10 a day, with a cap of 100 or so total. It seems like that would help keep interactions balanced.

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I guess that's kind of what I'm driving at. If we can't imbue likes with any meaningful signal/value, why are we even bothering with them? I suppose if a network extracts value from its users, likes serve a purpose of keeping them engaged even if users themselves don't really benefit from them. But that's the old way.

How do you tell if a like has no value or a lot of value? The only obvious one to me is if it’s a bot.

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I guess that’s what the dopamine tells me but I’m not sure that’s actually true 😆 I’m just not sure what it really means if someone with 100/100 status likes something vs. someone with, say, 20/100 status.

Like is as valuable as the status of the person giving it

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Hmm, I guess on that basis, UBI would never work, either.

I suppose a truly meaningless signal has the advantage of being equally meaningless to everyone.

yes, because the same amount of money means different things to different people

I don’t think any version of the like button or function really has value. Share it to your network if you have nothing to say, reply if you do have something to say. That’s my take anyway…interested to be proven wrong!