It’s not just that Twitter incentives and rewards aggression and hostility.

The flip-side of that coin is that there are no repercussions for behaving like a jerk.

If you walked into a work meeting, or a bar, or a town center, and tell someone - to their face, with dozens of people listening - that you think they’re a loser [or insert insult here], YOU would be the one who gets shunned and socially rejected.

Because being an a-hole isn’t welcome in REAL human society.

But Twitter’s engagement algorithms rewards that kind of behavior, so it proliferates, without the negative feedback that would otherwise exist.

Nostr is different.

Criticism is fine - it’s how we grow and evolve.

But when I see someone act unnecessarily shallow and rude, I unfollow them. They lose my attention, and they lose the potential of my future zaps.

Value for value goes both ways.

TL:DR

Don’t be a dick.