I love the process of digging and finding interesting people on #nostr. Everyday I set my goal to follow three new profiles. I love letting my curiosity guide me towards what I find interesting. It’s a feeling I’m rediscovering. One that I haven’t felt on the internet in a long, long time.
Curation on my own terms.
Keep it interesting #nostr 💜
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Good morning. I’m glad showed up in my feed. I have a similar perspective as you. I gave you a follow so I can see your content in the future. Keep going and keep building! ✌🏻
Likewise man!! Glad to be connected 💜
Aw I love this! Remind me to scroll through your follows this weekend to find cool new interesting friends!
Dude!! So many good people 🫂
It repeatedly blows my mind, just how fundamentally decent the majority of people here are.
My hope/theory is that it’s not actually “just like this on Nostr”. While it’s true that a number of us have overlapping interests or worldviews, there is also a natural diversity: people from all around the world, with different cultures, languages, philosophies, and experiences, all show up here to say GM.
It’s more of a cultural bell curve, where the majority of people are pretty chill, decent human beings, who generally like each other and respect one another’s differences.
My radical proposition is that this actually reflects the real world, and that the current cultural narrative of unrelenting division - while it has some truth to it, for sure — is drastically overblown, both on a personal level and by the media. On the edges of the bell curve are the very niche, very loud, and very “divided” subcultures. These groups have been given the loudest microphones.
Individually, if we only interact with the toxic, rage-bait algorithms that have come to define modern social/media (because it’s in journalism too), we experience the world through this clouded lens. We’re fed a continuous diet of disagreement, outrage, war, etc., because we click on it and thus the people making the content decisions get paid.
Remove the algorithms, and you remove the illusion of irreconcilable division. Nostr is a perfect case study of this, and so far it’s going beautifully.
I’m cautiously optimistic that this trend will continue when the user base grows 10x, 100x, because my view is that humanity is primarily good. Time will tell, and incentives will matter. But I’m hopeful that on a value-for-value, proof-of-work standard, our better instincts will prevail.
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Just started this book, but I think you would like it!
Completely agree, left alone I believe people have a tendency to get along and work together for the good of their community.
It's the same game theory that works in bitcoin, no nostrich has a gain in ruining nostr, and all nostriches win if nostr wins.
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Right, it actually *feels* good to treat each other well, and to coexist in a space where people are good to one another. Especially in stark contrast to what we’ve seen the internet grow into
There will be malicious actors. Like the guy who made those ReplyGuy bots. He just wanted to elicit a reaction from y'all for shits n giggles and everybody took the bait.
Good point. Bad actors could also ultimately strengthen the community and make the network more resilient. Like Bitcoin, #nostr is anti-fragile.
We’re lucky to be at an early enough stage in nostr’s existence that there’s room for a lot of tire-kicking without creating a large-scale/societal disruption
I blocked it at sight, no sweat
Truth Lebs, ppl are pulled to the static to be absorbed in the noise
Drop some names!
Gotta do the proof of work but I think you’ll enjoy these nostr:npub1rmz9gu6de0m0u4ysrn39crrud099ahvfgs6pvasl4hpjr5ud7yus54xv06 nostr:npub1uqsqmwm2mvm7hg48kr0yn47wvtnzeeaqm2qqxd3gf57kyzlle8uqg3rd6f nostr:npub1fzthqal0au8wxdkj8k2dnfwd5g5vvejlergk5sdca33vsm7fd5cqun2erk 🫶🏽
nostr:npub1g6xqwu00vpm6xq837def5wg3qw376q0q4nxxl0cshv7hhrcs0rpqxr72ah art, Bitcoin, geekitude and stuffs.
cool. and sounds difficult
Little proof of work everyday — I find it enjoyable actually
