I didn't use Twitter all that much in the beginning *ducks*, but Nostr at this time reminds me of Google+ in the early days. A small close knit community, where everyone feels like they know everyone, the noise is minimal or nonexistent. This all changes though once a large enough user base hits. What I'm wondering is, long term, will this not happen as much on Nostr due to different groups or tribes of people being able to use their own relays, allowing for lightly segregated communities to flourish?
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It will happen. Ties are formed today. We humans have a tendency to destroy beautiful things. However, Bitcoin integration may keep this all sane and hopeful
So the experience of my TL will vary depending what relay I’m using then? Could you explain why, if so?
Yes. For example, if I only use Relay-1 and you only use Relay-2, we'll never see each other. But if someone else adds both Relay-1 and Relay-2, then they would see both of our notes.
It's how the protocol is censorship resistant too. If Relay-1 bans me, I can just start sending my notes to Relay-2 and all of my followers can follow me to Relay 2 just by adding Relay-2 to their profile.
How would they know which one you’ve gone to?
Be great to have an option to have groups of likeminded who use certain relays for specific chat i.e. Bitcoin not sh*tcoin
Perhaps saving different relay setups under one set of keys / i.d. that you can switch which relay set you use
I feel the difference with Nostr is over a decade of user experience and expectations have been solidified. I haven’t followed what people are saying about Nostr on Twitter, if anything, but thus far I would imagine the current reputation of Nostr is decentralized, Bitcoin maxi safe haven, web3 focused and it may not entice the masses over yet. Will this change? Hard to say.
I wouldn't say we're web3 focused since that's mostly a VC marketing term and cash grab, but we are focused on decentralization and ownership of our data.
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