I’m on day 3 of being nostr only and I’m starting to realize that a large number of bitcoin twitter folks with big followings aren’t here. What gives? Are their incentives misaligned?
Discussion
yes and no. i could tell you my perspective or you can hang around a little longer and it will become obvious to you why.
I’m not leaving and I’d love to hear your perspective.
so the yes and no part. the incentive structure is different although some clients may as well be twitter clones. nostr has no algos to feed you information. so its not ao easy to just hack the algo and gain popularity overnight. unless some popular person here boost your notes.
nostr is tiny compared to twitter. most bitcoiners on twitter want to be influencers and they measure influence by follower count and nostr cannot compete. the bitcoiners not wanting to be influencers are comfortable with the twitter dynamics and can readily find solid information and can keep up with their favorite projects in the space.
nostr is for noobs and more advanced bitcoiners who are interested in engaging further in sovereignty/freedom. like using bitcoin as a medium of exchange (v4v), data ownership and free speech via social media etc withoit fear of being deplatformed or demonetized..
there are trade-offs to say the least.
I only got into twitter to consume as much bitcoin information as I possibly could. Now after years of reading all the books and listening to all the podcasts I got bored. I’m still hungry to learn but I wasn’t being presented anything new on twitter. So I decided to focus on learning more about lighting and actually using bitcoin as a tool other than just a store on value. Which brought me to nostr because I want to interact with bitcoiners instead of living in the nightmarish hellscape that is twitter.
precisely my fren. those folks still there either have monetary interest recycling information or just havent arrived at the point of exhaustion consuming pig slop.
I’ve already had much more engaging conversations on nostr in a handful of days than I did in all my years on Twitter.
Who for example?
No algos, they can’t shitpost for engagement, they have to start over for an audience, they actually have to engage, nobody is sucking up to them on a freedom protocol.
Twitter is their Alamo…
JUST LOTS OF EXCUSES AND LOST OPPORTUNITY
Yes. They’re not in it for the freedom but their income.
Fuck influencers brah, here we are all the same. Just plebs who enjoy each other views and company. Here we all bleed the same.
they want to produce content that pleases the algorithm which is to say content that injures humanity