cultural differences more than anything
nostr:npub1e4qg56wvd3ehegd8dm7rlgj8cm998myq0ah8e9t5zeqkg7t7s93q750p76 can maybe explain it better than me π€
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How can it be a cultural thing? Everyone would need to have either the same or very similar follower list for the conversation to continue for more than a few messages.
out of respect and to be polite, people donβt tag nor reply to each other, therefore there being barely any overwhelmingness in their notifs
It's one of those Japanese-specific cultural things that must not be considered at value face (the "official explanation"). Not the meaning and reason why they do it but the actual social implications.
I personally think chat rooms are awesome and I miss the golden days of mIRC. But air replies don't work like a chatroom and are not the same. As much as they can be rationalized as politeness and consciousness, they can also be extremely alienating.
Japanese people definitely do not engage in the same (level of) passive-aggressive subtweeting we see in the West, that's true. But for instance, to me all air replies do is pollute my feed with incoherent half conversations because I don't follow everyone - and I don't want to follow everyone.
It's like the Japanese culture of wearing masks. Officially, a sign of politeness. In reality, one of anti-social behavior.
*face value
Sorry for the confusion π
Some Japanese users interact with each other by posting short, non-mentioned posts over a short period of time.
Just like chatting in a chat room or in a real conversation.
They don't specifically ask for a response from the other person, and this often happens when a large group of people are all excited about the same topic at the same time.
Which client is best for that? Damus doesn't work well for it
amethyst on android
nostrudel for web and phone
because of lists support
Or maybe we're being helped by Rabbit. Rabbit cannot use lists, but it does have a column that displays only Japanese posts from Japan-specific relays.
oh, hmm π€
what if you could only post to that channel?
We cannot post only to that channel. In Rabbit's Japanese column, Japanese words are sorted and displayed from among the regular posts of a specific relay.
I see non-japanese content too
I think so.
I think this habit of using air-reply is working well because there are few Japanese speakers today. This will probably no longer work if the number of users increases in the future.
I learned that many people around the world communicate in English, not their native language. High-context communication in the Japanese community was achieved in part by narrowing down the viewing languages and thereby limiting the target audience.
That's why I think it's very difficult to get everyone to understand. However, if you are interested, there is also a website where you can take a look at the timeline of Japan's relays, so please check it out from time to time.π
Heh many western users don't remember but we actually used Nostr the way pre-jack era