the content quality on nostr blew me away. this is my take on sm

1. twitter doesnt allow long form content, and forces people to give up private info if they want to share longer form contents. so there is a whole cohort of people you will never see engaging there because their profession is more secretive. as a result, you are left with sound bites and mindless confrontational people with relatively nothing to lose.

2. reddit is a step above, in the sense you can dive in and find subs with real insiders. the issue is censorship. if you have a vpn with no leakage your account will be removed at some point. mods also are arbitrary and generally a net negative to the convos. the value is obviously not shared with the comtributors which will cap the effort one will put into it.

3. fb, ig, consumerist trash

4. tiktok was great, but it’s centralized so it got nuked. expected.

nostr is the only sm that really excites me. it’s fully censorship resistant, the quality is extremely high and i think it’s because there is a technological barrier to entry. the concept of keys management (private/public) is just hard enough to scare away the low effort rage bait, but simple enough for the rest. i tried nostr 2y ago and gave up on it. so it’s a come bck for me. the progress i see this with yakihonne, primal, following._, habla…. is just very (very) exciting to see. i am here to stay. there are much more relays, its less clunky. bravo. there is so much more potential. articles are a great innovation that i dont recall seeing 2y ago. now i see widgets coming up. if pple start implementing their own widget inside of their profiles, you can really create a universe of small planets which are communities, and in each planet you have different people doing different services. so maybe, planet finance. and one would have a widget to project your personal finance cashflow, another to compute your taxes, another to build your portfolio. medical field could do the same, etc… its a complete different way of socializing info, with supercharged tools, and without a leviathan on top that enforces misguided rules. and there is nothing anyone can do to stop it.