For large twitter accounts, nostr is still just a few more subs for their next youtube video, a few more product sales or at best, a place to cry when their twitter gets hacked. itâs the people with less voice who make nostr feel like a family.
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Thatâs not true of everyone, I think. I have a decent Twitter following but I donât really even care about it because it feels cheap. What gets engagement over there mostly sucks, itâs drowning in bots, it has been basically overwhelmed with politics, the algorithm matters more than what people are actually interested in, and the bitcoiners that spend most of their time over there are mostly not the âreal ones.â There are a few good ones left, but it just got cheapened over the years for sure.
Nostr is now my foundation and the other stuff is nice to have, but itâs like having a little piece of extra property that someone else keeps the keys to and you canât even insure. Ok, itâs nice when you can use it, but it doesnât feel like yours and you certainly canât depend on it. Even more so if you have âunapprovedâ opinions on certain topics⊠of which I have no shortage. đ
So I would say itâs unnecessarily pessimistic to think thatâs necessarily how larger accounts see it. I think with enough time most will see it the opposite. Nostr is their real account and they get a bunch of extra fluff from YouTube, X and other âborrowedâ networks when they are allowed to.