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Most communities aren't "fanboys sitting around, passively, waiting for someone famous to post something on Twitter", they're "bunch of people hang out and chat because they have something in common".

It's much easier to move that "bunch of people" than "fanboys" because they don't need heavy advertising and monetizing, to have a reason to exist. And they don't care about visibility, they just want to see _each other_.

Bruno Dias 4mo ago 💬 1

Agree, most of us abandoned traditional social media platforms because the conversations there are always "politically correct", "one sided" or "peer pressured".

When users want to have real human interactions they must resort to smaller, private communities or niche platforms where people speak freely without fear of mob backlash, censorship algorithms, or the constant performance act of “curating” a public persona.

It’s ironic — social media was meant to connect us, but the need to appease the leadership of the loudest voices has turned it into a place where genuine thought is often replaced by safe, pre-approved scripts.

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verbiricha 4mo ago 💬 2

This happens on kind 1 here too, look at the OP.

Laeserin 🇻🇦 4mo ago 💬 1

Only on the public mega-relays. I sometimes aim stuff I post at that "Primal" audience and it's sorta influencer-y or corporate-y because that's just the way that market works.

Writing for TheForest is more intimate and personal, in tone, and the private communities are where you can really let your hair down.

So, it's less the kind, than the relay the event is meant for.

Laeserin 🇻🇦 4mo ago

A lot of people on Twitter or Instagram and etc. actually have private accounts. They use them like community apps.

But they have the problem that those corporations are administering/moderating their community and mining their community's data. One of their private community members could get banned for something they say publicly, and then they are also prevented from accessing the private community. And anything you post on there gets hovered up by their AI Datenkraken.

Bruno Dias 4mo ago

Instead of simply trying to make connections, we should first learn how to make them. Every user on this protocol is a human being—and if they own Bitcoin, they’re already valuable. The key is to learn how to be valuable yourself; only then will others see you that way.

On Nostr, I had to throw away my convictions and connect with people I’d never met before. It was difficult at first, but I quickly realized: the more valuable my content was, the more valuable my connections and overall experience became.