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Jumping from one cage to another as some of X have done by going to bsky does not solve anything, as you well know.

My criticism is aimed at those who have not yet had the opportunity to create a real alternative to tik tok on Nostr.

Certainly, it doesn't seem to have been a priority. While TikTok has been a huge source of income for many creators, I honestly don't see much overlap with Nostr users—aside from a few cross-posts here and there.

It's unfortunate to see people lose their platform, but there's a classic lesson here: never build your house on someone else's land. This applies to all social media platforms, both centralized and decentralized.

The best strategy for most remains to use these communication channels to connect with and direct like-minded people to platforms you control—your own website and your own mailing list/forum.

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Hanshan 11mo ago

tbh we can do without platforms that incentivize race-to-the-bottom attention seeking content.

not that they'll ever cease to exist

but I dont see lamenting their demise either.

Deleted Account 11mo ago

Agreed. And dancing on the graves of creatives who you may not respect / agree with / or understand is not necessary. Your final paragraph is a super important one and a lesson I had to learn as well many moons ago!

Hanshan 11mo ago

it better that they start to learn something about how things work

rather than find another platform for producing short attention grabbing content

viola

"storage isn't free?" 🤔

Laeserin 11mo ago

That was painful to read, but he's probably speaking for all newbies, there.

Just the basic ideas, that storing data costs money, or that you could store your own data, or that media are separate from text, is a nonstarter for most of them.

Hanshan 11mo ago

for sure.

but maybe a few of them will learn something.

just being here

even for a little while

could have an impact.

Laeserin 11mo ago

Yeah. Using Nostr actually teaches you how social media really works.

I know about zero people, outside of Nostr, who realize that the images on websites are not part of the HTML, they're just linked to from there.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 11mo ago

people who used steemit and its clones learned about that tho, nostr:npub1cxp3l03x20mkzezzr4takm8w8zuva7xwvacmcewp97z58hjt8xls3mexlq was one of my compatriats from there - he still uses the community-take-over after Justin Sun turned the steemit.com app into a koreabot fest - it also uses markdown, as well

but yeah, most average people, they have no idea about anything of how it's done

Diacone Frost 11mo ago

Isn't it amazing that nobody know what hypertext means/is?

Deleted Account 11mo ago

OP (nostr:npub1f6ugxyxkknket3kkdgu4k0fu74vmshawermkj8d06sz6jts9t4kslazcka ) already addressed your points.

And just like 99% of Bitcoiners who don’t run a node, 99.99% of ex Tik Tokers will not host their own video server and jump over to #nostr . Not never, but not yet ;)

Hanshan 11mo ago

which isn't what I said

but ok

Deleted Account 11mo ago

My bad. I misunderstood your note.