One big concern I have about abandoning legacy platforms for Nostr: leaving them uncontested creates an illusion of consensus for those who stay.
Without serious opposition group think takes over completely. And they act accordingly.
What should we do about this? 🤔
Thats their problem, we’re here because it’s a better experience. X is failing. Remember the natural progression from Myspace to facebook?
I hole you're right about that analogy.
Well, 😅 people believe what they want to believe lol
From my experience Myspace bled users because of bugs and problems after some updates.
For example, someone sent you a message and you didn't get a notification, so you didn't know that you had a message to respond to.
The technical failures made Myspace completely useless for communication. I suspected that Myspace was sabotaged but it is possible that it was merely mismanagement and poorly tested updates.
wow i didn’t even realise that happened. must have been part of the late stage collapse.I just checked and Its still going in the most deprived from lol. Never thought to really look into it until you mentioned it. I never really left myspace, I just started using facebook because my bigger sister set it up for me when i was about 15.
I remember that Myspace added new visual designs and the community was unhappy with the changes, combined with a ton of bugs.
There was a couple of times when I would write to some person I knew on Myspace and it was unclear if they had received the message.
Before the updates, Myspace had worked good enough and after the updates the platform was a disaster so people stopped log in and there was an escalating migration.
Maybe if they hadn’t fucked up, me and all my friends would still be on it. would be great if someone made a new one that worked. 🤔
wow i didn’t even realise that happened. must have been, part of the late stage collapse. Its still going in the most deprived from lol. Never thought to really look into it until you mentioned it.
Make an aggressive AI powered Nostr2twitter/FB etc. reply bot that figures what a typical Nostr response would be to every post
It's the opposing viewpoints that make a platform engaging and interesting.
People like consensus for a little bit, but ultimately it becomes boring, and looks for new things like NOSTR out of curiosity and an appetite for contention.
Nostr is high signal, but hardly the most contentious place yet.
Yep - fair point.
There's your answer then I guess...
Everyone on NOSTR should always try to express their genuine viewpoint (which the platform allows you to do without fear of reprisal), and it'll become contentious soon enough!
One dimension to consider is that if liberty advocates leave a communications channel then there will be fewer voices there to speak up in favor of freedoms.
Group think never goes away completely. I sometimes think of group momentum as an acceleration that reaches a state of directional inertia. Since acceleration is necessary, some amount of group-think becomes a constant.
Only sovereign individuals, usually introverts, are willing to challenge group misconceptions. But since misconceptions are common within groups there is a bombardment of noise that would take enormous energy to combat, hence independents will pick their battles.
Well. The algorythms will take care of this, on any side of the discussion. One stance, genarates posts that backs up the allready agreed upun.
This is the same principle that leads to one party rule in big cities. The smart ones leave and the remainder keeps voting for the people who created the mess in the first place and who offer them free stuff.
The good news is that overall the city begins to shrink as decay and decrepitude increase and the influence of the city decreases over time. Eventually the big picture improves overall but not without unnecessary pain along the way.
Building a better parallel system slowly but steadily drains the energy out the legacy system.✌️
I think the algos and general ingroup vs outgroup thinking made opposition on legacy platforms ineffective anyway.
We just need to keep letting people know, that other views exist. When they are ready to listen, they will find us where ever we are.
