I'd like to believe that were true but I'm sure we'll end up with tribal behaviour on here just like on all social media. I think the lack of algorithms that are geared towards optimising engagement can help with that to some extent but people will still enjoy arguing with their enemies. That probably means a good put-down or attack on said enemies will be rewarded in zaps by their tribe.
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To err is to be human. We will never have a purified experience because it's simply not in our nature.
That said, I'm not sure there's a better way to promote good behavior than to be able to incentivize it, so I'm optimistic we'll have an overall better experience than on the existing legacy platforms.
I would argue that the pure mind is the base layer of your nature. It's just that many are blown about by mental inertia and cling to fixed views and beliefs. When that is the case your mind is not flexible and open and the Self identity feels easily attacked by ideas/ thoughts that challenge its world views.
I'd agree with that. Will financially incentivizing for good behavior promote to curb negative & unproductive dialog? Time will tell.
I think it will drastically change human behavior through incentives, because up until now the incentive has been to exploit others for self gain but bitcoin creates a cooperative game. Whatever you do to add value to the network increases the value for all of us in equanimity as the network increases in value because it has 0 entropy.
So the incentive to do what is unhelpful, unwise, and unkind will over time go to 0. This is probably on a multi century scale though. Yet these incentives are sorely needed in a world that has the technological capacity to destroy itself with nuclear war due to not being sociologically advanced enough or wise enough to handle its technological capacity.
Humans. What can you do?
I think mostly the best we can do is to be mindful and self aware of our own nature so that we can avoid getting caught up in such dynamics ourselves. And also to lead by example in rewarding more pro-social behaviour.
Like I said, I do think nostr changes the incentives as compared to centralised social media, but I see that more as removing an amplifier rather than really affecting human nature itself.
We'll see how it plays out here as adoption grows and a more diverse set of people join, connect, and clash with each other. I do think its great that such a positive and friendly culture has developed so far.
Yup. Its human nature.