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I was thinking that we’re probably just trying to imitate what we already do on traditional social media, and Lightning is just an added attribute for now.

It’s like when TV was first invented, people didn’t jump straight to reality shows or modern cinematography; they just imitated the radio. They’d just sit there and talk, or do stage dramatizations. Then eventually, someone realized, 'Wait a minute, if I shoot this small man with the tiny mustache from this specific angle, I can trigger a bunch of normal people to kill millions of jews?' And just like that, we 'invented' modern political propaganda and mass advertisement. We are just now using nostr, and lighting and all this technology training to imitate what we know, because that’s natural… whatever I have just forgotten my thought

This is just a random thought triggered by your comment... but you’re right, we definitely need to get a bit higher (like I am right now) to see the bigger picture.

Horszt 4d ago

I really dig this perspective! We are too much caught up in repeating patterns or tools we already know than creating something really new.

But sometimes there is no other way, too. I think it’s the balance between these two worlds!

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Libertex 4d ago

social media is evolving toward decentralization (like Nostr), and we expected it to just be the 'next step' after traditional social media. But we might be competing in the wrong niche entirely. We think it’s 'social media' only because that’s what our current technological-cultural framework allows us to imagine—but what if this technology becomes something we never even intended?

I’m new to Nostr, so maybe this is a repetitive thought here, but I see AI eventually following the same path as the internet throughout its different phases: military, academic, corporate, then centralized, and finally, decentralized and individualized. It’ll probably happen with these three technologies (Bitcoin, Nostr, and AI) converging into a single protocol that enables the truly digital sovereign individual.

Horszt 4d ago

Inspiring! 🧡