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If someone like Joe Rogan joined nostr it would be seen as a monumental win, however the behavior of users would immediately start to shift from creating to consuming.

While you are not obligated to follow celebrities, their presence and content has a ripple effect, causing the whole platform to become performative. The result is most users just take a back seat and become passive consumers.

Twitter would not have survived without the arrival of the celebrities, yet we saw how that turned out in the long run.
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Rico 1y ago

I don't see what people are NOT posting, if they only consume, it has no impact on me.

And if I don't follow Joe or other celebs on Nostr explicitly, no algo will show their notes to me. Only if my follows boost his notes I see his content. I remain in control of my Nostroverse ✌️

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Ross 1y ago

Right, but my point is that the incentives and behaviors change when the survival of the system is on the line.

You personally might feel like you are in control of your experience, but there would be people spending $20k/month to run relays which manage your notes, and all of the notes you are not seeing.

Musk said fuck the advertisers, people will pay for free speech. He was wrong, and things have only gotten worse on the platform. The advertising is awful, the algorithms more agressive.

People want mass adoption of nostr, but mass adoption is expensive. The only proven business model is to steal attention and data from the users.

This is the existential question. Do the people who love nostr truly want mass adoption? When they say that, do they understand the tradeoffs?