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I find this 'conundrum' and/or rumination resonant, as I too have largely abstained from social media for the better part of the last decade and more.... -- I've peripherally observed the decline of exchange and in the quality of thought and content. It feels, that the stage has been so unfortunately and set, and our populace primed to blindly accept things that ..... staggeringly, and obviously absurd and/or wrong. -- I had early on adopted a personal policy of a sort of 'Damnatio memoriae' with respect to those ideas and the individuals who perpetuate them - which is to say, to not share in the public hue and cry...and the ...creation of occasion and argument for engagement...and the sowing of fertile soil for broad and damaging 'troll-ery.' --- In this time and general context, and with the global consequence of macro happenstance and advancement...I think...it has become imperative to engage in dialogue -- the experiment of drowning out the obvious idiots with silence bears no fruit when so many would suffer fools .... Which is to say, I feel that Nostr provides potentially the tools and context to engage in fruitful and productive engagement, and gradually foster and favor signal over noise. -- Or so, I hope.

Martialis 2y ago

To be honest, I suspect it's about the people involved at the moment. There's a lot I like about Nostr but I don't see that it's currently doing any different which would mitigate the perverse incentives which poison regular social media. That said, there seem to be good people involved on the development side of things right now so I have more faith in the future of Nostr than other alt-tech platforms.

There are a lot of Bitcoin people here dreaming big but personally I hope Nostr stays small for as long as possible.

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SovereigntyQuest 2y ago

That is one thing we talked about in January. There was an idea that nostr would somehow be able to accommodate smaller groups that would be somewhat separated from the big pool of nostr general. I remember #[4] being involved in discussions and having some ideas about this. I'm hoping to see him back on nostr as his dev skills and experience are valuable. I recall thoughts that maybe clients based on certain interests or even relays based on certain interests would start to pop up. There were, to be fair, quite a few who predicted that as nostr grew it would just end up like other social media and they were pessimistic about it's ability to maintain the values that have made it so engaging. As time goes on I do see it as the responsibility of individuals to contribute to what we want to see happening and I don't see the inevitability of a large nostr as being a detriment if we are able to perhaps establish smaller groups built on the nostr protocol.

Martialis 2y ago

I am hopeful in as much as the basic design of the protocol, separating ID from client from database, has a lot of flexibility built into it. It'll never be just one thing like the old social media model - there will be a Nostr to suit everyone's needs.

SovereigntyQuest 2y ago

That's very much what we hopefully will see. I suspect many might not be fully aware of that idea that, as a protocol, nostr is a communication infrastructure into which we can interact on our own terms. The monetary incentive for certain clients to want to grow into the next big platform and then dominate the on ramps into the protocol do seem worth being cognisant of, which is why seeing some smaller clients being able to attract users is crucial. Again I'll drop #[4] into the conversation in the hope it might pull him away from his other work to share his thoughts with us.