"Why did you stop using Nostr"
https://old.reddit.com/r/nostr/comments/1josljh/stop/
> it's an annoying fucking echo chamber of mostly crypto-bros mostly jerking each other off. with a dash of keto pics, and neonazi memes, oh and constant "GM" messages". I think it's hilarious how unaware most of the users on there think they'll "succeed"
Constructive criticism, IMHO. Nostr is technically superior, but culturally shallow.
Every "hashtag" I search for, 99% of the results are from the Mostr bridge, and that's a one-way street... You're "speaking into the void" because most of the Fediverse bans Nostr by default.
Example: #3dprinting , #startrek.... anything that's not Bitcoin or roughly culturally adjacent.
im probably in the 1% of nostr user that agrees w/ you
The only way to fix this is to flood those hashtags with actual stuff you care about and mention people who you know are also into this to tag their posts as well.
I love Star Trek but I'd probably not tag it in my posts if I talked about here nor would I follow the topic.
The Mastodon/Fediverse modus of operandi of having instances be theme-focused makes community building around niche/fan/nerd topics easier but comes at the price of less freedom of speech because everyone wants safe spaces now.
Yeah I know, there's an aspect of this that is "be the change you want to see on Nostr…"
Part of this is, I'm coming from predominantly using Reddit, and there discussions are organized around topics first rather than "people you follow."
So it's maybe a different mental model to adapt to.
