I don’t care about nostr vs Twitter. It’s all the same. Except the Twitter algorithm is throttling my reach. The reason is I used to post about sports, and my followers and former colleagues, it turns out, unbeknownst to me were most desperately credulous normies. When I started posting things that were not-narrative compliant, they almost certainly muted me.

The algo, per Musk himself, dings you for having large follower verified accounts mute you. So my reach was throttled. The banger posts would get a lot of engagement right away then die on the vine. I couldn’t be sure of this — maybe I was just paranoid and imagining It — but Elon himself confirmed it the other day. So that’s just how it is.

I don’t care about nostr vs Twitter. I don’t care about purity tests or “freedom tech” as an ideal. But the algo is throttling me, so I feel more like posting here, despite much smaller network effects.

It’s not because I’m *good* or *pro-freedom* or *virtuous*. It’s because the centralized platform is limiting my reach for social credit reasons, and I have no recourse except to contribute posts on a protocol that doesn’t do that.

There’s nothing more to it than that.