about my own social media and Nostr usage lately, in large part because nostr:nprofile1qqsvjgj5zd630ssugxqwqtk8uwffcfaw8wwz3z56crtpq6xfzr5y7jcprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujucm4wfex2mn59en8j6f0qy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjctzd3jjummjvuhszxthwden5te0wfjkccte9eekummjwsh8xmmrd9skctcptf5m3 has been leading us through product workshops at nostr:nprofile1qqsq7gkqd6kpqqngfm7vdr6ks4qwsdpdzcya2z9u6scjcquwvx203dspr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6vp39eukz6mfdphkumn99e3k7mf0qy0hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytfsxghxgmmjv9nxzcm5dae8jtn0wfnj7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09u9qle85 .

In

the past year I think we've found solutions to most of the technical

problems I was most concerned about when we pivoted our company from

Secure Scuttlebutt to Nostr. These problems being spam, abuse, and

scaling. I think relays are doing a good job mitigating spam, the

decentralized moderation system we've built at Nos seems very promising

for dealing with abuse, and some innovation has been done to support

scaling (like the outbox/gossip replication model, and various set

replication schemes).

On the culture side, I'm just going to say

it - I don't like Nostr's culture. There are loads of lovely people on

here, that's not the problem. I think there are two factors going on for

me:

- Nos and much of Nostr is designed to work like Twitter. I personally don't like Twitter or the global-town-square feeling.

- I feel like no matter who I follow my feed is full of Bitcoin content. Bitcoin is cool, but I'm tired of hearing about it.

I'm

going to take another shot at finding folks on Nostr who don't talk

about Bitcoin. So far I have settled for people who talk about things

I'm interested in *and* Bitcoin but that's not working. This means today

I'm unfollowing a lot of people I really like. If you are one of them,

don't take it personally. I'm looking forward to 2024 being the year I

find "my people" on Nostr.

And you know what, if this resonates

with you maybe we can make it easier to find one another. I added

#nocoin to my Nostr bio, if you want to do the same I will be searching

for other profiles that use this hashtag and give them a follow. They

are easy to see using the Nostr.band search engine:

https://nostr.band/?q=nocoin+++kind%3A0