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It’s a legitimate problem that needs to be addressed. I’m sure someone could make an example of very popular accounts if they wanted…
It's probably true, but it's just not worth the hassle. I'm here to try to give people a different perspective, and possibly change my own, as I've had to seriously consider cryptocurrency after so many years of ignoring it...My stance is still that it's a scam...But if people don't want to have that discussion and would rather have their own little hugbox circlejerk about zaps and gambling bots, then fine. And if the devs want to silence any opposing viewpoints at the client and relay levels, fine.
It's just not worth my energy to go on a crusade to make Nostr the network that it has potential to be, where people discuss the matters of life and not just worship one fake currency while denigrating another fake currency.
I could spend every spare moment of my time developing stuff to make Nostr better, but for what? So people can just pat themselves on the back all day about how genius they are for latching on to a never-ending pump-and-dump tool that the rich use to get richer?
I feel the same way about fedi, where the overwhelming majority of ppl ridicule me because I tell pedophiles to stop masturbating to drawings of children. Pick your poison I guess, I’m sure fedi is the right choice for you.
I think I probably just need to take a break from both and read books for a while instead. Fedi used to have a lot more posts worth thinking about, and people would link to interesting pages and recommend books you couldn't find elsewhere, but now it's all just varying degrees of degenerate anime coom. I hardly even see people posting the stupid motivational stuff about going to the gym and being the best person you can be anymore...It's just aggressiveness and anime coom. Not great things to fill one's mind with, and neither is internet money.
I joined nostr to see if it would eventually turn into something other than a more complicated bitcoin telegram group. It is possible. It needs a wider variety of people and posts to be of any interest beyond this. Initial noob impression at least
My answer is to build my own stuff instead of trying to get someone else to do it, but every time I consider spending time on Nostr development, I realize that this community isn't worth wasting the time on.