if bluesky suddenly announce it would shut down for good like pebble, do you think its users would join nostr or fedi/masto or twitter or threads or something else and why #asknostr
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pebble the watch?
I don't think they'd come to nostr, it has a reputation there as the crypt0bro/Nazis social media. It's assigned as enemy.
I suspect they'd just go back to twitter (tbh the bluesky feed is just left twitter 2014, they just don't like the management). Potentially mastodon.
I wouldn't even have Threads in the running.
I wouldn't even have nostr in the running had you not mentioned it.
The only scenario I can see of them joining nostr is if someone with a huge following and well respected somehow wrote a 30000 word essay about how joining nostr is not in fact problematic but praxis. And laid out how they would create a community here amongst the 'nazis' and 'crypt0nfts'. Or something. Unimaginable really.
The nigger cattle would go right back to X.
Masto.
My most pessimistic (I'm avoiding 'realistic' lol) scenario, and not just about bluesky users but general adoption of nostr...
It would take something like, I don't know.. 5-10 years of failure of adoption, nostr practically inactive (except for me posting dungeon synth and arguing with the cyborg bot), forgotten.
Someone remembers nostr, a YouTuber perhaps going 'wwwahheeey remember the nooostttoor protocoool waaahey, that was a bygone era of decentralised media waahey. Let's look back at the protocol that failed cos the community couldn't stop saying ST4CK S4TS AND ST4Y HUMB1E. Don't forget to like and subscribe, so your pod will get autoupdated and I can get an extra portion of bugs. Waaaheeey'.
And someone out there will go hmm 🤔 nostr, might just bloody work now it's empty.
Waahey.
What's the Kafka quote again? ðŸ«
