I had an italian memes facebook page from 2016 to 2020.

It reached ~1000 followers. But was ~1000 real people. I known some new friends with same interests in cities near mine and even my actual girlfriend from this page/group. 2 people I met online thanks to this page are today in my daily-basis real life interactions. I lost basically all the other ~1000 people and possible interactions when I decided that I didn't want use facebook anymore.

Also, facebook stopped the visibility of the page. These people ofted didnt saw the new posts; facebook wanted me to pay to show up in my friends/followers feeds. The platform was shit, I tried migrate to telegram, 10 people followed.

Someone could argue that the valuable relationship are the ones that survived this "deplatforming", and this is certainly true.

But even if I wasnt in a close relationship with all these ~1000 people I still had valuable interactions with some of them and we had fun together in a lot of accasions. They was " something" for me, I was "something" for them.

I lost all the "social networking", all the possible valuable human experiences and contacts with these people.

If I meme on nostr I own my social network and I will conserve it for the future.💜

This is why nostr.

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