A few Normie friends joined, saw the horrid uncensored chaos that is the global feed and quit immediately. If you aren’t a decentralization, privacy, or BTC maxi before joining it’s a really jarring transition that will immediately repel a lot of normies.
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This.
At the moment NOSTR (as much as I love it) is a Freedom/Bitcoin/privacy circle jerk.
freedom me harder, daddy.
Mass adoption here we come!
Yeah.. global feed is a bit much
Yep that’s why I removed it from my Advanced Nostr Search app as soon as I started rendering media
Very wise 🔥
It became obvious I needed to do that while testing. There’s some wild shit on global. 😂
Global reminds me why I mute 🤐
Too many to mute there though. I only venture into global with notes filtered to nostr.wine relay.
Is that a paid one?
Yeah. Possibly the best paid one. 😀
Does it filter out all ActivityPub? 😆
I posted about a LinkedIn style client. Similar to Fountain in that it could only show posts related to careers / professional content. They already understand the social graph / web of trust concept. We need normie clone clients to onboard I think
I had this experience on Amethyst but not Primal. The amount of trash I saw on Amethyst, even without global, was maddening.
What a fragile generation you are.
How do people think this differs from the content transmitted via other social media networks? People kid themselves that the underbelly of life does not exist if they cannot see it.
You need to understand how #bitcoin works in order to understand #nostr
That is a feature :-)
the Grand Filter! 🧡
To be more specific since I phrased poorly and most are misunderstanding my intent:
If you have a raw global feed you get vile insane shit like borderline CSAM, animal torture, etc; stuff that I would bet 99.9999% of people all do not want to see. Unless you are a super freedom oriented person with at least rough knowledge of how nostr works, if that’s the very first thing you see I understand why nostr seems unappealing.
To be specific: I do not see being an echo chamber as an issue at all. That’s just the initial crowd the platform most appeals too.
Luckily I think most people onboard to Primal, learn and then try other clients, and thus don’t have this problem, but it does happen on some other clients.
I had the same terrible onboarding experience, with the old Coracle. Fixed it by switching to Amethyst.
Still traumatized. 😅