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if you had to use nostr only on your computer from now on, which client would you choose?
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Odler Hodler 2y ago

I'm a Twitter veteran from 2008 and was a pretty prolific poster there with a modest following for many years... but I haven't tweeted since months before X.

I was an early nostr adopter also and zapped encouragement to many, especially devs for awhile. All in on #grownostr, stay humble, stack sats, zappity zap. But I took a long break from nostr too after Nostrgram stalled out back in April something, because it was just getting kinda discouraging. No depth, no real content, no engagement.

So yesterday I scanned all the current web clients on Nostr again, and honestly it's still a dumpster fire here for me:

Scrolling a feed is still often an exercise in frenetic lurching from page to page b4 I can read a post, mingled with "page unresponsive" msgs and stalled image renders. But most importantly, the content is... still mostly unintelligible and largely ignored/abandoned notes with very few coherent threads or real conversations. Despite my best effort to construct meaningful posts, I get almost no engagement, and the high percentage of notes without a single reply is telling. I find practically no news or enlightenment on current events in the world, and tons of faux profundity (silly memes). As social media goes, nostr is still just not worth a zap.

Change my mind

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Not my name 2y ago

It’s a new platform.

The other ones you have been on previously literally turn you into a product. In exchange, they offer you the illusion of the “benefits” you describe.

An open source social media platform will require some measure of work on your end to filter out the inevitable noise. Is it seamless yet? Far from it. But are the other platforms any better? They are so deeply flawed in my opinion as to have never been worth it in the first place.

#nostr is the only path forward if you value the reasons for which it was invented namely privacy, censorship resistance, and native #bitcoin integration.