So I removed all social media apps from my phone, minus Damus and Primal.
Facebook is on there also, but I use the marketplace to sell stuff locally.
Discussion
Are you no longer on Mastodon / ActivityPub?
I have the accounts and I’m sure I will check occasionally, but I removed the apps from my phone to force myself to spend more of my doom scroll time with #Nostr instead of doom scrolling multiple apps.
This might not be a popular opinion around here, but unless you're specifically interested in a mix of Nostr development, BTC/Monero, steaks, memes, libertarian politics, right-wing American politics, and Christianity, there's not enough content on Nostr to doom scroll for long. (At least for me, I run out of tech, cats, arts, and astronomy content reasonably quickly).
The Fediverse, on the other hand is a bit more tempting. I can doom scroll for hours on Java/JVM articles alone.
That said, if reducing doom scrolling is the goal, sticking to just Nostr might actually make a lot of sense. At least it would for me! :)
Nostr has a lot of work to do to catch up with the fediverse. Have you tried ditto.pub ?
I just logged into it, is it just another client? Or is there something I’m not seeing? The downfall to all nostr apps is the lack of an explanation of what it is when you first show up.
I started my Nostr journey with Ditto and even began working on a fork of Soapbox that could function as both an ActivityPub and Nostr client (despite not being a big fan of JavaScript). Some time later, ReplyGuy happened, and it was decided (carefully avoiding naming names here) that NIP-05 "verification" was the best solution to fight spam on Ditto servers.
I tried to convince the Ditto devs that this wasn’t a good idea but quickly realised that pushing the point any further would only lead to Ditto becoming a gated community, likely locked behind registration forms and the whitelisting of “trustworthy” domains. In other words, Mastodon over Nostr with extra steps.
So, I jumped onto the WoT bandwagon instead. Utxo was far more open to different ideas and genuinely willing to help new users who might otherwise be excluded from writing to WoT relays, like myself.
Fast forward a few months, and now I’m contributing to Haven, trying to give the Outbox model and public Kind 1 notes a fighting chance. Even though some Nostr content is already locked behind private communities, relays, and other gated spaces, I still believe in the potential of public Kind 1 notes as Nostr's "town square," even if the content itself isn’t particularly appealing to my personal tastes (I could argue that the very nature of a public town square makes most of its content unappealing :)).
Yeah, limiting doom-scrolling is part of things. And I still have an account on darn near everything. So if I need to find certain info, I have other places to go. I just want to focus my attention on one of them and leave the others for one-off situations. #Nostr is the most exciting to me so its apps gets a spot on the phone while the others are relegated to web browsers if need.