Was there anything about nostr you found interesting/curious btw? I mean you did keep this bridge thingum open? 🤔
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nostr:npub1njst6azswskk5gp3ns8r6nr8nj0qg65acu8gaa2u9yz7yszjxs9s6k7fqx nostr:npub14gg2f7al7ef9ehju3sgpzk440jlu4vk4d49mt6eedk2kdgm96q2sak79df Nope, Nostr is just a big Bitcoin circlejerk with soydevs who want nothing more than to promote client-side censorship on the "censorship-resistant" protocol.
The dwindling numbers tell a grim story that those outside the circlejerk see as common sense:
Nostr is Just r/bitcoin. There were some who tried to make it a little more lively, but they were shut down. It was clear that the authors of the protocol and clients were more interested in zaps than building an interesting community (or, really, communities).
So that's what they got: a bunch of NPCs "zapping" each other fractions of a cent all day, smelling each other's farts, congratulating one another on their delusions of being the new banking class.
Every relay is the same. Every user is the same. Ever post is the same. "We are all such geniuses! PV!!"
I'm not sure I'll disagree with you too much, it doesn't feel like a social media a lot of the time in fact. As a user it feels like stepping into what should be closed beta for Devs. Which is sort of interesting to me at least. There are some (albeit v unlikely) scenarios which would make user vibrant, and I don't think they'll happen any time soon. Or it'll happen not as-is but on an offshoot of a web app attached to nostr with a particularly usage. I think the most likely scenario would happen after a period of nostr 'dying' and a community steeping into the wasteland, like offgridders. Again, I'm not sure this is likely.
What's your take on urbit? If you have one?
Also wasn't aware of that stats page, v interesting 👍 #pv lol
You do have a point, but activity pub has a lot of the same issues. Outside of like 5% of the sites it's almost all literally the same type of users - the same ones I was joking about in my OP. Hell my instance that isn't even up anymore is on almost 70 defed lists and counting by the day, cause of being on some master blocklists. Honestly I don't give a crap about bitcoin I just think nostr is neat it solves the issue of defeds. Still doesn't solve userblocks but that I care less about.
The soydev issue is real though and something I don't like. Even mastodon apps don't do the user block shit amethyst does (that I know of I could be wrong).
This is a good take.