No. Nostr doesn't have horrible retention for lack of dopamine, it has horrible retention for lack of engaging notes.
Notes are largely self-congradulatory and lack anything like real insight. Luckily we don't need insights, or diet advice, we need genuine curiosity and humility about the universe outside of Bitcoin.
This goes for me as well. I am not a humble person and it reflects in how much engagement I get.
Everyone's experience is different. I get that. My feed keeps drawing me back in. I use Nostr every day and when I have a busy day and I'm away, I feel like I'm missing so much. We have a lot of content and I look forward to catching up on it.
I understand. However, we aren't seeing wildly different content, you find it engaging and the people who don't stick around don't. I am positing that, just maybe, the good mornings, Bitcoin evangelism, and health advice aren't nearly a deep as generally held.
There are great conversations here, no one here is stupid, but they occur deep in reply threads on topics outside the mainstream nostr fare. I remain for the potential of the technology and for those rare moments that people let their deeply held beliefs on the nature of being shine.
People are wonderfully complicated and nearly everyone has fascinating history and insights, thing they have pondered or experienced in depth. What are yours?
This badge conversation is actually a good example. I don't usually engage with your notes, but this one strikes a chord, because you have noted something deep and fundemental about online engagement. I happen to disagree that chasing dopamine is a net good. (It works too well on me so I hate it) But I am glad that people are willing to try things that I don't like. I might be wrong and if left to me many wonderful things might go untried.
So keep up posting wild curious ideas that you have thought seriously about and more people will stick around, even if just to disagree.
