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I now take more than I give with established social media, and this is reversed on Nostr. But Nostr-only is not in the cards for now.

Nostr simply does not have the rich network of people engaged in some of my interests that Facebook or Reddit does, YET.

This means that if I # asknostr something about pottery, there are like six of us here 🤷🏻‍♀️ they might or might not have a good answer, and might or might not see my post.

If I really want an answer, I can pop on Facebook where I have access to 3+ slightly different groups of hundreds of potters each and get 10+ answers in minutes.

Or when I visit the Biblical Christian Egalitarians group on Facebook, I learn a ton, get inspired, and feel less alone. I’m the only person I know of posting about this remaining on Nostr now that nostr:npub16llpfttm85ltrqc5ggyu5snfq38x6vwhanyrhrddpn43ylt3wdxqa99rf5 has left.

Learning and community are, to my view, the primary purposes of social media. I’m focusing on building here, and spend most of my social media time here by far. But when I want these things for myself, I still turn to centralized sources — not because I love algorithms or ban hammers, but because that’s where some of my people still are. They just aren’t here yet in numbers. And numbers do matter sometimes.

This is not a complaint about Nostr. “You can’t get mad at it, it’s just a baby!”

It is:

1. Solidarity for those who aren’t Nostr-only. Despite all the weird factionalism, there is no one right way to use this platform. Feel free to consider influence but discard pressure.

2. Encouragement to everyone to post on their niche interests AND keep trying to purple-pill people with niche interests.

3. A humble request to devs to continue working on user experience in communities/groups as far as possible.

#grownostr #notnostronly #keepnostrweird nostr:note1unmsm3rs6cgtqkdznc9nwaly0u8akdsymfkcd8t7k8f8l8t3xawq7v7ma2

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Bitcoin Sikho 1y ago

Mate, you’re into way too niche stuff, like who in real life knows someone that plays a harp and how can you expect someone to help you tune it up on nostr 😳

So please lower you interests like gardening or maybe some music, so that we can help you out 😁

I’m joking 😬😬

Nostr has ways to go, in terms of being able to preform the way we want it to.

I like the concept of spaces where I can talk to others and join different groups, which is what is still keeping me on other apps.

But the peace of mind that I get from #nostr is unrivalled, the other apps are way too polarising and the algos love this and it’s a perfect tool for creating fear.

𝔼𝕣𝕪𝕟 𝔹𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕔𝕠 1y ago

One way I “beat” the algorithm when I use older social media now is I go there with a purpose — I’m going to go to this group or this person and look for or say this specific thing.

I pay much less attention to anything else on my screen.

Though to be honest, right now most of what else I am shown there is something inspiring about art or homeschooling/baby care, so it’s usually not angering stuff anymore anyway

Parallel Structures 1y ago

Just checked out bce on fb. Women's ordination and shared leadership in marriage is not biblical. This goes against God's perfect design. Why try and change what is God's will? It will only lead youth astray.

This doesn't mean my wife doesn't have a say in the direction we go, but it does give is clarity about who the burden ultimately falls on. This has helped us both tremendously. We have our rolls and can relax into them.

Forgive me if i am interpreting their mission statement wrong

𝔼𝕣𝕪𝕟 𝔹𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕔𝕠 1y ago

I don’t think you really checked them out if you came away with the impression that our claims are not biblical.

It’s the whole point of the group that we are certain the Bible backs up these ideas and that this equality is God’s intention and design.