unpopular opinion - most apps are cool when there are fewer people there. mass adoption adds noise.
it was the same with email lists, Usenet, irc, silc, first web based social networks, big social.
I enjoy the moments when Nostr is still small and irrelevant. We can build and enjoy.
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Most NPCs will never realize they're an NPC. Its not in their programming to allow it.
I was an NPC. Now I fart when I want to.
This happens with all movements, not just apps. As they go mainstream, we have not just more noise, but the ethos is diluted, co-opted or forgotten.
Like right now, with the bitcoin2024 shitshow, we see what happens when normies arrive to the bitcoin movement: you forget cypherpunk, hard money roots and simp for politicians, Wall Street and “strategic reserve asset” crap.
This also happened to the feminist and gay movements in just the past decades…
yes.
thankfully we can ride the waves
Well the great thing about Nostr is there's no real global feed, there's no algorithm to show you people. If you want to keep the noise down all you really have to do is keep your network small. That's what I do, my rule is if I can't read everything everyone I follow posted within the last 24 hours in under 20 minutes once a day then I follow too many people.
