I have never thought the goal should be to replace Twitter. That's not my fight, so I don't care about how it's going.
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What do you see as a worthy goal then? Marketplace?
Adding a common login and social layer to any space, and integrating the feed, rather than having lots of smaller, disconnected spaces controlled by governments and big corporations.
Once you remove those two things from a space, that space has to add value in its own right. Nostr doesn't solve for a particular space having boring or uninteresting content.
I don't use any social media (except for this one, cause its anonymous), and I see no value in the social layer.
Rule of thumb, engaging content = well funded content. For that, I watch HBO, they spend $100M on a show. 100x of the entire funding of Nostr. Corporations and governments will always create better content than a bunch of shitposters.
I still like how there are a few cool people here. Granted, most of them came from fedi
You misunderstand the social layer.
Social layer is like comments under YouTube channels or newspaper articles, recipe or movie ratings, developer discussions about code-change proposals, websites that allow you to book hotels and complain publicly about the dirty bathrooms or post pics of the delicious breakfast buffet, chatting during a video conference or while watching someone stream, contacting a restaurant to make a reservation, etc.
It's a way of letting users discuss what they're looking at or interact with the source of what they're looking at.
You still need people running hotels, filming movies, or writing well-researched articles. And Twitter is where news is often breaking, so Nostr doesn't need to do that (yet). It needs to integrate the breaking Twitter news better, so that people can discuss it here.
Mine neither but I see Nostr as an extension of Bitcoin and much of Bitcoin seems to revolve around stuff on X.
Like I say, that webpage has never been my jam.
What do I want from SM? A place to find like minded peeps and chat, share common interests, maybe a little of what's going on in the wider world but with decent filters applied. Pretty basic stuff.
I actually think a lot of the old, pre Facebacon web was cool. I loved goofy music production forum off topic stuff. Really niche but a lot of fun.
Maybe I need more private groups? I'm not sure to be honest. I just know in the two social media accounts I have (here and Fedi) aren't quite hitting it for me, in this time.
I'm not being defeatist. If anything I'm making my presence known chatting shit in the belief eventually I'll find some community. However, maybe in this next stage of internet, social media is net negative? I appreciate I come with more questions than answers. I don't pretend to be an expert about anything.
Discussion boards and long-article blogs will become more interesting. Places where you go to read and talk about specific things with other people who are interested in those things.
That's what I miss from the pre-SM era and Nostr can combined the two eras very neatly.
But these are additional apps that are being planned and built. The Twitter-clone stuff is just the first thing built because it was the impetus for some devs to start building.