It's easy to make what you want, it won't be Nostr-native, but it will use Nostr identities (keys) for accounts.
Spam-attacks (friends requests) can still happen, but can rely on Web of Trust to filter out, giving a similar experience as Facebook/X.
For what purpose though? Why not use Facebook instead? Building this, won't be decentralized in architecture, as you "can't" have decentralized and private at the same time.
Could build it on Nostria, but I doubt there are any market for this (people willing to pay or revenue through advertisement with few users is worth little) and I would just be providing yet another service for free.
What are your thoughts on the financial nature of such a social network?
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spam attacks won't happen, the web of trust is dumb, it doesn't work,
i don't think you understand, I will explain to you again,
there will be a button on everyone's profile that says "friend/follow" request, if I click on it, it opens an invoice and u need to pay 21 sats or less, the sats go to either the app developer or the profile getting the friend request,
no bot farm will send mass friend requests because it's cost money.
it's possible, you just need to think harder,
you also need to stop the mindset of advertisements, advertisements is not the future,
You never explained it to begin with, so you didn't do it again. Thanks for clarifying.
There will be plenty (spammers, stalkers, attackers, bots) who will send 21 sats for friend requests and the advertisements will be in the profile names and profile pictures. Also will be a lot of fakes, attempting to infiltrate friends lists. Many will succeed. Many will loose their private keys to scammers. Those people will "call the support center". Did you know that a large part of Facebooks ad revenue is from scammers?
Mitigating these things costs a lot of money.
Nobody is willing to pay the actual cost of the services they use. Everything is subsidized by VC money or ads.
Exactly what you want has already been attempted, "Lotus" it was called. The only difference was that you could set the cost of your inbox ourself, which would be better than a fixed 21 sats. The concept is that if you are attractive for some reason and people want your attention, they will pay more. You can also make it 1 million sats, but you "pay it forward" or "pay it back", depending on the scheme.
So your family already knows you, so they don't have a problem sending 1 million sats in a friend request to you, they know they will get it back.
This exact concept has already been done in traditional social media apps, I don't believe it had any long term success.
you need to be more confident
