Nostr

I didn't take offense to this because it doesn't apply to me, but in all seriousness this is why I don't hang out with other programmers LOL.

But I don't post much either, which I'll have to fix. l'll give you that, you post effortlessly while I have to actually make myself post.

It seems that substantive discussion is in the process of moving off all of these scrolling feed type sites - back to forums and blogs where it belongs I guess.

But anyway:

-X still has a critical mass of users that allows there to be some intelligent posters, but you can't say anything controversial ( I got sent to the penalty box recently for just a moderate and general insult, nothing targeted ) and even finding content can be a challenge.

-Nostr you can say anything but it's not ready for primetime. The crowd here makes me think of guys who had an edgy libertarian phase in college but then never moved past it. That seems to be a constant for any crowd with software nerds.

Dissident Sound 1y ago

i do not think forums are better than social media, unless you are the moderator then it is better FOR YOU.

a blog is like a forum but instead of moderators subtly steering the conversation a blogger plainly states what you are expected to think and the reader may or may not even be allowed to comment.

social media is on the opposite end of the spectrum where moderation is kept to minimum - generally you can say anything that is not racist, antisemitic, xenophobic or misogynist ... whereas on a forum you could have a long list of rules such as no linking to other forums, no posting advertisements and so on.

and of course on NOSTR there are no rules but blatantly illegal content will be removed by relays because they don't want to go to prison. and if some relays choose to remove content that is legal ( haven't seen this happen yet ) it won't make any difference because of the redundant nature of relays.

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