I know normies, and they're too hooked on algorithm driven slop that they are willing to be banned, censored and fed propaganda over it.
This will not change. Cherish the nerds, the tinkerers and the curious people that from time to time decide to make the jump.
At the end of the day it all boils down to how much are you willing to live your life as cattle.
Nerds now; economies later.
Repurposing Antonopoulos’s rant on bitcoin: Nostr won’t win by being Twitter but weirder. Nostr wins by being open, borderless, censorship resistant, and permissionless.
We’ll win by building a better foundation for digital economies. The competition requires permission to integrate. It requires you to scan your eyeballs. It won’t let you use bitcoin. It works in one country but not another.
Personally I’m grateful we don’t have mass adoption yet so we have more signal.
I promise my previous comment was not meamt to be ironic, but it illustrates the point perfectly. In middle of writing a post, and I had to leave the app for a moment. I did not knowingly hit reply, but there is a reply anyways. Issues like this and slow UI are what are driving my friends back to centralized social media.
I hardly believe that. Every nostr client could be fast and flawless, but without The Algorithm™ they will get bored and leave.
I think there is probably truth to both sides, but we can hardly test as the current clients are far from fast and flawless clients. So far I've used primal, coracle, and freemfrom. All of them are quite slow and occasionally buggy. A friend of mine who was on Nostr and enjoying it gave up after posts repeatedly failed. To be clear, I dont have instagram, get on FB about 4 times a month, and use x about twice a week. YouTube is the only social media I use consistently. I have been trying to use Nostr daily because I love the ideas, but I can completely understand folks who dont use it currently do primarily to UI. After all the chance of getting zapped is far more exciting than algorithms.
Algorithms get better and better but sometimes they can be used for evil or get flawed. In my opinion its best to have freedom of choice - boring mode, algorithm mode, your own settings mode ...
