The social and algorithmic pressure to simply mimic the people around me here, rather than engaging my own mind, is quite high. Ironically, it's much higher here, than on Twitter, because this place is so controlled by one narrow ingroup, that they can easily suppress dissent or discussion with shunning. It's like a church.
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Huh.. I hadn't really thought about that. Maybe I'm suffering from that same thing without realizing it?
See this is what I mean. You actually make me think whereas most are just talking Bitcoin and that's not really why I'm here.
Most of the people here don't notice it because they never write anything contrary to the majority opinion, or they have such a large number of followers that everything they post is automatically the "new majority opinion" that everyone repeats, as if it were holy scripture.
Other, smaller npubs may have said the same thing, a few days prior, and paid the price. It often takes the "right" person voicing an opinion, for the opinion to be "right", but then things can change on a dime.
Humans are both individual entities AND part of a collaborative group driven by consensus.
Your experience mirrors this constant conflict and is probably overall a healthy situation.
There are always corners to be found online / offline where common dissenting voices can be heard.
Any excuse for me to repost this lol:
😅 Yeah, a bit of a mental prison, and I'm not good at caging my mind in. My thoughts meander to wherever they wish to meander.