Nostr will become more and more localised over time.
This idea of a ‘global town square’ is genuinely stupid and destructive to communities and only helps activists who can rally people across jurisdictions to idiotic causes like “just stop oil” and “change the code”.
Besides activists reaching smaller audiences in smaller nostr communities, how exactly can nostr communities protect themselves from assholes joining a relay and loading off their shit?
Or do we hope that they rather talk about in front of bigger audiences? Seems not impossible, but I'd be happy to hear a solution with higher chances of keeping nostr civilised...
That will be a function of going more localised. Think of city subreddits as an example, on nostr they’ll form around private (paid) relays and not be gatekept by psychotic leftists but rather by the community itself as they’ll be more economic than purely social.
We shouldn’t be trying to reach the entire world with every message but rather be reaching interest groups.
So when I post stuff for #AUStriches that’s probably not relevant for you, but maybe we have crossover of interests on Bitcoin and some other things so that’s where we meet.
I basically never check the global feed on nostr, only the follower list.
