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People comparing Twitter to Nostr using user count are missing the fact that Twitter is the most effective way to share news *off of Twitter*. It's a news protocol.

Journalists read Twitter, so people post their first-hand news and commentary on there, and then the journos embed it in their blogs and articles, and the person who wrote it also embeds it in all of their websites and chats and etc.

And then lots of people click that embedded tweet 🐦, to read the comments. But you need an account to read, or 🩷, or respond to comments, so everyone who wants to click those tweets has an account.

And once you have that account and want to post something, yourself, the barrier to entry is low, to just login and post your something on Twitter.

This is how I read Twitter, every morning, with my ☕:

https://welt.de

Daniel Wigton 5mo ago

Twitter used to be fun. I use it for technical discussions, I could reply to big name engineering accounts and get interesting replies. But since I refuse to pay for a blue checkmark my posts/replies don't register. No point in posting anymore.

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 5mo ago

before facebook, my main interest in discussions on the internet were technical forums. mainly about drugs, mainly DMT and methamphetamine. i'm now programming and most of the discussion forums are practically read only, i hate reddit, and they even block my VPS VPN address so i hardly even read them at all anymore, and stackexchange answers are usually useful but i only find them because they come up with high relevance to my search for a fix on something... even then, so often these ancient, outdated responses.

i have more technical discussions on nostr now than anywhere else. mostly just me reporting issues i see in my work. also a lot of stuff about religion and spirituality and alt-history.

most of the semi-technical stuff i discuss on nostr would probably also get me shadow banned on twitter as well. there's a reason why many of the groups involved in talking about alt history and alt science are constrained to small youtube and telegram channels.

even if i waste my time trying to not get banned on twitter, there's very little relevant discussion to my interests anyway. at least here i have a few frens who read and comment and give their own contributions to such topics.

when your favourite things are outside the walls of the narrative machine, reach doesn't matter. what matters is finding other people at all.

Daniel Wigton 5mo ago

True. This is why I want to fill the solar system with trillions of humans. Then even your most obscure interests will have a lively community of enthusiasts.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 5mo ago

The Book tells us to do this. and i think some of those described in The Book are also going to make sure that we continue to fulfill this mandate.

Silberengel 5mo ago

The ✔️ use Twitter like a stage, that they take turns standing on, and then they switch to being part of the audience with the other ✔️.

It's an effective stage. Standing on it gets you in the news 📰.