A very large group chat is just a new social network. Pointless.

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So much content is gonna go missing again from the timeline through huge groupchats

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So you’d agree with: Adopt DMs, don’t adopt groupchats?

Groupchats for what needs to be secret. Public thread otherwise. Imo

It depends. Group DMs/chats make sense when the nature of the discussion or topic is more private in nature, like a close group of friends/family, a business or hobby project group, etc. But it doesn’t make much sense to me to have a large general purpose chat. Except I guess it could provide redundancy of connections, like if you lost access to your Nostr account then you could message people on that other chat and they’d know it’s you. That’s about the only benefit I see.

Agreed, wasn’t a fan of that on Amethyst either 💜 Interesting balancing act and curious to see how they manage the challenge of it

I guess that’s what “social media” is now. people used to want to Interact with people they knew IRL on MySpace, Facebook now twitter and nostr is more about taking to anyone you want to

The community has replaced my friends. It’s functional and fulfilling. Be careful of the echo chambers though….

Great point! How can we facilitate this?

I think it’s great, if you don’t like what I have to say drift away, if you disagree, by all means let us have a meaningful and respectful conversation, if you agree you are an ally, but that doesn’t necessarily make us right in our views, just stronger for having each other.

IMO, many of the thing NOSTR is doing, entire community exposure for your decisions, no ability to retract your statements, anonymity to the extent that you choose to preserve it, it’s a tenable path, like a real town square where communities can develop.

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Idk how anyone keeps up with large or even small group chats

Is this what’s happening?

Yea with everyone trying that Simplex app