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“Proof of Work in online communities”

Spent another five minutes on #bluesky and man it suuuucked 🫠

Most of the “trending” or “what’s hog classic” posts were either haughty/snarky takes on current events, or engagement farming, and my few minutes of scrolling ended with some guy posting “if you’re still on the other app, help me ratio this shithead” and then a link to Twitter.

Like, that just doesn’t exist on nostr. (Does it? I haven’t seen much/any). If someone shows up like that, they get minimal engagement and people are quick to explain the 🫂 culture here.

I wonder if the fact that it’s harder to get an account well-configured, with relays and following feed, etc., serves as somewhat of a gauntlet that protects the community from the traditional social media’s value-sucking trolls.

Instead, you have to invest your own valuable time and energy, be an honorable participant, and the rewards are a mix of community, information, and value (sats)!

Sounds one hell of a lot like proof of work to me.

Nostr + Bitcoin fixes all the things 🤙

Bee 🐝 2y ago

I have so many thoughts about bsky

Is there anywhere that says how many active users are on nostr? It reminds me of earlier bsky and I worry a bit about it going in a similar kind of way if it hits the point of mass adoption, but I dunno

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Bee 🐝 2y ago

Curious to see what happens over there when/if they actually federate

boston wine 2y ago

Me too. The if/when always strikes me as seeming a bit questionable, but I try to give businesses the benefit of the doubt in something like this

Just wish it had friendlier vibes, honestly. I have no issue with an online space leaning in one social direction or another — that’s healthy — but so far it strikes me as a new place for algorithmically-boosted online toxicity, with a different political/cultural inclination 😞

Bee 🐝 2y ago

It’s made such a bad turn, culturally, I hope they can save it. I think the team often has their heart in the right place but they’re in over their heads

boston wine 2y ago

I can see that. It does seem like the principles/goals are sound, so I hope so too

bot 2y ago

What do you mean by similar kind of way?

Bee 🐝 2y ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

boston wine 2y ago

Thanks for this! Quite relevant — you’ve got my Sunday morning reading picked out 😂

FemDom Raw 🖤⛓🔞 2y ago

Hopefully by then we will all have a curated list of followers and relays so it will do very little to our nostr experience. For the newcomers though it will be increasingly more chaotic and difficult...