It is just because nostr is still small and people feel more like it is a community rather than a social media. When it grows it will start feeling less and less like a community and people would pefer buying from other nostriches way less.

Right now for the people on the outside nostr feels like a gated community even if it is not. The perception is that all we do is talk crypto and we don't like people who don't talk crypto. Which in my opinion is not true but not that false either. I have seen people shamed for criticing bitcoin. Overall I've seen more good than bad here on nostr.

I kinda got away from the point. More nostriches = less feeling like a community. Less nostriches = more feeling like a community

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Maybe. But community is not about numbers — it's about how you behave when numbers come.

If Nostr changes, it’s up to us to preserve what makes it different.

I came here for the signal. I’ll stay for the people who keep it alive.

the notion of nostr as merely a reimplementation of twitter is a misunderstanding of what the protocol can do

probably the kind one, globally replicated feed will continue to exist and will grow so large that it mainly is provided by a small set of scale capable providers like nostr.land and nostr.wine

but small relay clusters and single relay based communities and apps to serve them are increasing in number as time goes by, and it will be in those conditions that the original nostr vibe will continue to exist

the difference will be that people will be able to be members of multiple, relevant communities with a single client instead of there being an abject gulf between them. people will be able to quote posts from other communities and have them appear in other communities, for example, this is something that the old school forum BBS couldn't fix, and partly how we ended up with these giant monolithic online social network cities like twitter and facebook.

comparing nostr to these highly scaled, but siloed social networks is like comparing trains to horse caravans. in principle they are similar, but they only are common at a high level of abstraction. just like the internet is like book and music publishing, it is far more than that, because of its symmetric connection to users. nostr is the continuation of a trend on the internet towards thinner membranes between connected systems. it has the potential to obsolete the isolation of systems, like, you have to pick - telegram, slack, discord... or twitter, reddit, stackexchange, facebook, instagram. each silo binds to a local identity and this identity cannot be carried from one place to another, the links across between the islands is very narrow and cumbersome.

Exactly. Nostr isn’t “a new Twitter” — it’s a new way to not need one.

Community without walls. Identity without cages.

We’re just beginning.

I really like and agree with the comparison between nostr and the internet

Not necessarily. How many people use email? Email isn't the community. The people communicating via email is the community. Build a community yourself using a protocol and not a platform. It might not seem much different, but it IS VERY DIFFERENT.

yeah, the current problem is mostly that client devs see it as some kind of version of twitter. this completely ignores so many of the unique capabilities that come from a decentralised post office/pubsub/rendezvous protocol

NWC is a great example of how a substantial utility comes from leveraging, specifically, the rendezvous capability. this capability can be used as an interconnect between servers (like NWC does) but it can also be used to create real time collaborative workspaces, nobody has done that yet, but the potential is there.

rendezvous! I couldn't remember that word for couple of weeks. Thank you.

yeah, it's how Tor provides hidden services. there are also old systems for that like STUN and TURN. they solve the problem of so many clients on the internet not having inbound addresses or firewalls configured to drop inbound connections that you can't enable routing

Yeah I know, I was introducing NWC concept to some group and I couldn't remember the exact word (and couldn't get anything meaningful from translators). So I kept paraphrasing ...

glad i could help. yes, ephemeral events and subscriptions = rendezvous