I don't necessarily believe that it needs to be "quieted down." But a community with no skepticism is an echo chamber. That's not necessarily a universally bad thing. But it could feel exclusive, which doesn't often imply growth.
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Agreed. I liked the concept of nostr from a technical perspective.
But it is mainly bitcoiners who use it. It’s not simple to ask communities to come here. Need to make nostr better alternative in terms of ux and welcome ness.
There’s are plenty of people here who called for this community to self censor and be more “welcoming” to normies.
And it feels exclusive because there are really only two significant communities here (right now). The dev community, and the bitcoin community. We had a good number of egirls for a bit, but there isn’t enough of a user base to keep them here and support them. By the way, they were welcomed by everyone, even though they had no initial interest in bitcoin. If they had a censorship resistant OnlyFans alternative, maybe they would have stayed.
Bitcoiners are incredibly diverse in our demographics and backgrounds, but bitcoiners also tend to be very willing to analyze and scrutinize and question information that challenges their assumptions and beliefs.
If anything, bitcoiners have escaped the actual echo chambers of MSM and fiat culture.
All agreed 💯
But there's a healthy amount of gatekeeping out there too. Ridicule towards people who are skeptical of Bitcoin. And with the size of the Bitcoin community here, that is extremely intimidating.
It's just a mindset we need to remind ourselves of from time to time imo