I still haven't worked out the implications of this in my head. Although, the biggest thought that keeps popping into my head is: maybe social media should never have become what Twitter and Instagram did. It started out as friends, building community. That's what made them so magical and fun. I think that's why Nostr feels magical and fun right now. It *seems* on the surface, that absent the perverse incentives to engagement farming for advertisers, it could *stay* that way?
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This is how all social networks feel, I would assume, in the beginning, based off my only other time joining a social network in the early states. I was a day one user with Google+ and the community over the first two years was so close knit, vibrant, and engaging. Nostr honestly reminds me of that, well, minus the centralization 😂