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If legacy social media gamified the worst parts of human nature to maximize screen time and serve ads, how can Nostr do the same with the best parts and encourage community, communication, and connection?

#asknostr #grownostr

liminal 🦠 9mo ago

Legacy social media tore us apart, sending many to the extremes unable to talk to each other while keeping "calm conversation" the norm, banning the extreme views they created.

What if we have a world now where the political spectrum inverts itself - all political extremes unite together and fight against the very center-based forces that created them. Banding together for the very fact that they stand for something, and by that we can all collectively re-find meaning in the world.

Kinda nuts but also wholesome in some sense

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Ryan 9mo ago

How to design social media systems that bring people together rather than tear them apart?

A question Nostr should answer to succeed.

liminal 🦠 9mo ago

just straight acceptance - i may vehemently hate everything about you and what you stand for, but by both parties willing to talk its ultimately a net gain

liminal 🦠 9mo ago

Nostr not being able to ban anyone makes human interaction an axiom. Its up to the individuals to decide what to do with that

Ryan 9mo ago

I think it works fine now in the 10k magnitude scale. But what about 100k, 1M & 1B?

liminal 🦠 9mo ago

Relays are islands, that's where you'll mix around with others. #thenostr is never one place, and that's a good thing.

if you want to keep a specific narrative, you can do that but you cant enforce it on anyone not on your relay. But it really doesn't make sense to hold more users than you expect to be able to moderate.

If you don't expect to moderate, then you're not going to ban anyone and should expect a diverse spectrum of users and interactions from them.

i really think it works itself out regardless of the scale. It could improve by making it easier to show where different users are, but the baseline is okay for now.

liminal 🦠 9mo ago

Pretty confident nostr's popularity will come from onboarding through otherstuff. individuals will then recognize they can connect their accounts to microblogging, rather than the reverse.

the axiom 9mo ago

leave me out of that