The future of Social Networks is much less social.
Today, Instagram and Facebook are full of ads and sponsored posts. TikTok and Snapchat are awash with videos from influencers promoting soaps and dating apps. And soon, the most visible Twitter posts will come mostly from subscribers who pay for exposure and other perks.
In many ways, social media is becoming less social.
Then it's time to look for options, and above all teach more people. đź‘Ť
There are successful and unsuccessful social networks. Successful social networks are social and fun: http://www.zengestrom.com/blog/2005/04/why-some-social-network-services-work-and-others-dont-or-the-case-for-object-centered-sociality.html
The success of a social network with a physical or digital presence should always be focused on your group of humans with whom you want to share things in common. Today they have all forgotten.
It is slowly becoming corporate media. Nostr is the new social media.
when a company needs to return money to its investors—transforms a site into a vessel that prioritizes connecting people with paying brands over other people.
In other words, user betrayal is the only viable business model they’ve ever had.
When they started these networks no one thought about security, privacy or freedom of expression, they just wanted us to communicate with each other without understanding the magnitude of what would come. Today we pay the price.
Teach to Reach and then Reach to Teach.
Yes, it would also help for some celebrity to give more visibility to Nostr. That way many people would get to know her faster.
