Federated services like Mastodon and Lemmy suffer from pseudo-centralization where larger instances can bully smaller instances into censoring content they ideologically disagree with.
Operators are immature and do not take the position serious and will defederate out of spite over personal slapfights.
Nostr is a better service and is resistant from this problem. If you want less cryptobros on it, encourage more non-cryptobros to use it.
Since Mastodon users communicate via Nostr to criticize Mastodon servers, it's obvious which platform is for communication and which one is not.
To your second point, non-crypto people don't want a social space full of crypto posts.
The "curate your own feed" concept fails in this area, since you cannot escape Bitcoin, Craig Wright, and "Look at how shitcoin dropped" posts that don't have tags or blocked key words in them.
I used to be all about Bitcoin until I joined Nostr. I'm still for it as a currency, but don't want to see valueless posts about it (or gloating over other crypto prices dropping, etc) anymore; and about 97.4% of Bitcoin related posts on Nostr have no value. Aside from some professional authors, it's sheer noise.
Non-cryptos will like Nostr as a social space once Nostr is not a cryto community. Until then, they will poke their head in, get bored by all the Bitcoin posts (and posts about Nostr) then leave; just like our metrics have shown for the last year.
Cheers to Mastodon users migrating to Nostr and bringing valued content with them.
This will, and can only happen naturally.
When I made my first nostr key, my feed was empty and the Global feed was a mix of NSFW, food and travelling, and some Bitcoin posts.
If I had no interest in Bitcoin, I'd curate my feed by following non-Bitcoin contacts. I think people are just too used to having an algorithm do everything for them based on behavioural analysis.
Top 500 defederated Instances on Mastodon / Fedivers
https://fba.ryona.agency/scoreboard?blockers=500
Federation or Fake-ration?
What Fediverse do you run? Mastodon, lemmy? Heard of monero.town? Agreed re: Nostr. See: https://primal.net/e/note1d80j2alpx93nsqwcn4r4fk8z4atxh3hzrf50hkgx6s97q0r3jzpsq6dz86
As for Monero, there's a few of us around, just not as active. Check out npub:npub1r27775s4thzj5gdz4j0dr8jygvtldnur2qxlzw0muu7z57k83c4qtsyqx6
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