If you ever wondered whether or not the Twitter algorithm was actually affecting your mood or influencing your behavior, just look at Nostr.

I see numerous posts daily saying how much more calm it is here or that they chose a peaceful reply to something annoying or not to reply at all.

I also see many posts expressing relief that there are few posts about politics and how nice it is to not see invasive advertisements.

Some time ago I posted on Twitter that once a viable alternative arrived, that I would move. Mastodon never really caught on and it’s structure is actually very centralized with instance operators banning others deemed unacceptable.

Nostr feels like home and it is the only thing since Bitcoin that has gotten me really excited for what is possible and gives me hope that we can build a future together worth living in.

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Well said!

feels like the next level up from Stacy Herbert's virtual living room on telegram - relentless optimism & no sh!tcoining

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#[2] was making fun of me on our last episode about being so excited about #nostr but I think this captures what I was feeling more.

We all know we're being emotionally manipulated on all the other platforms but we just fight through the pain. Nostr is full of people who want out as soon as there is a viable alternative.

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social engineering woot

It sure is fun watching this develop. We will have some insanely good apps and services within couple years and there are a ton of new capabilities we haven’t even thought of yet to be created.

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This is true. I somehow feel the discussion on Twitter become more toxic and also the trending feed adds more fuel to fire.

Twitter‘a algorithm has learnt that it gets a lot more engagement by ambushing you with trigger content.

It squeezes catharticism from users.

i had the same feeling with something called are.na but your right it so much calmer here

Are.na reminds me of Google knol

I can confirm this. So much toxicity has been removed by simply spending time on Nostr vs twitter

Yeah, it’s actually shocking how different the vibe is on each platform. We were being manipulated…

Love this

Yeah !! Agree !

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It's crazy when you think about it, I still have my Twitter account but I have drastically dropped my time on the app, I just check up on certain accounts, sometimes I find myself commenting on certain posts and when I see the responses I am like why did I do this to myself?

It's a small community here.

If NOSTR grows, so will the toxicity, politics, spam, and advertisements.

Enjoy the peace while it lasts.

Research (Fehr and Gachter) show that cooperation in communities goes down with time as toxic elements enter

However, once you add payments, rewards and negative rewards, cooperation shoots up, and keeps going up

True. Eternal September for Nostr is incoming.

v nice

Nicely done!

Great note, #following

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thanks for sharing! agree completely

No advertisements is huge

From the bottom of my heart, I believe that we’re building the future together. 🤙

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I couldn't agree more with what you said! #following

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10x just hope it stays this way. When the social influencers and media roll up and smash the relaxed vibe window’s

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Do you think "Pay to relay" is just another way of pseudo-banning users / segregating the network between those who can pay and those who cannot?

In a way it's kind of worse because it's a monetary 'ban' not for behaviour.

Personally I like everything to be open and each user decides what relays to connect to, who to follow, block, mute, etc. That said relay operators have real world costs associated with bandwidth, disk space, etc. and SPAM and malicious users cost them money.

This is already way better that #Mastadon ever dreamed of... The LN integration is gaming changing.  Anther huge WIN for public key cryptpography changing the world for the better.

100%. And the fact that there isn’t (yet) an algorithmic feed surfacing dopamine hits and clickbait is amazing.

Not sure why I wasn't following you before, but after reading this... followed! And I completely agree.

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Keep it geeky for a year or two.

Keep Nostr Weird.

Twitter used to be the same once...

Yes I remember, which is why I want to make sure Nostr does not suffer the same fate.

What's your plan?

The mood really is so much more serene on here 💆🏽‍♂️

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It's the algorithms, what's amplified is controversial to get more interactions. That's why it's more chill here.