the conditioning that has been carefully architected and implemented has been about destroying people's ability to think, and made them addicted to constant stimulation

this is why primal is such a dumpster fire, they are doing that, but really primitive and repetitive, with far less finesse than the craft of the now 12 years since they started with facebook and twitter

nostr's whole point is to make a leaky bucket that nobody can really control, to allow people (like us) to build tools that move the control locus to the user instead of deceptively crafting a constant instant gratification dopamine addiction

i'm sure even you, like me, and everyone on nostr who gets the point of it, took some time to start to realign your thinking, i mean, i was fed up, i never was attracted to twitter and the bitcoiner community there for me was the last bastion of common sense in the whole world of social media, but even still, so distorted by these deliberate, corrupt incentives

i have gradually curated my list of follows to the end of getting away from this constant discussion about "reach" and "influence" to focus on people who actually understand that social media is not supposed to be entertainment, but a discussion forum