Would definitely say, If you are not speaking to the niche bitcoin programming (end the fed Bitcoin absorbs everything) rabbit hole nobody interacts. For a group of high iq math people I thought someone would be happy to challenge my worldview or dig into philosophy or something. Nope, Just basement dwelling incels with no life experience outside of numbers in their computers here.
Discussion
In my experience, there’s lots of subjects being discussed all the time. There’s some bitcoin talk sure but a lot of other stuff too. Family talk, cooking, nature, movies, culture in general
Most of my contact with Bitcoiners has been very surface level outside discussion around code. Building software is always a serious subject in the bitcoin community, But every thing else? Not so much. Lots of people coming from trad fi playing the same tricks, Waiting for others to make mistakes they can profit from, Or looking to take advantage of gung ho people new to finance. Not much real “community” or “circular economy”, More people sizing each other up. Again glad to see coders independently doing their thing, But overall most people seem afraid to offend each other and conversations are usually surface level at best. I like intellectual conversation and I was disappointed by the Bitcoiners on this end. It always seems to come to one person being the smartest in the room and everyone kind of following along with them.
Did you find your experience different here vs Twitter? Is it worse on Twitter?
I used twitter for one week literally. Yeah mainstream news comes from there, But NOSTR has no master. After I had my account suspended I realized the argument for free speech from the highest position of bank lending is non sequitur. The narrative is the master of traditional markets. Anything owned by a bank eventually starts singing the same song as all other outlets, Pick your wing of the bird and enjoy the flight.
That being said, Believing in your own bullshit is how all those terrible strange outcomes happen. Opportunity is a bird perched on the falling tree of disaster. Those who make opportunities out of crisis are the ones most prosperous, And plenty of people destroy themselves saying things they do or don’t mean or understand. I do believe people have the right to be wrong, But it is each person’s responsibility to accept when they are wrong.
Say what the fuck you want, I’m all ears.