i’ll be honest and say that i haven’t been on nostr lately, because it’s hard to want to use something that no one i know irl uses.
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It’s a very complicated platform
I have been thinking where is nostr:npub1csamkk8zu67zl9z4wkp90a462v53q775aqn5q6xzjdkxnkvcpd7srtz4x9 ? I know how you feel. Nice to see ya ✌🏼again
yo!
I'm the opposite. I couldn't care less what locals are using.
it’s not about “what locals are using”, i just like taking and connecting with friends.
also generational differences and the attacks i was getting for saying the most simple things on here was absolutely tiring.
I’ve never understood the need to use a platform to “keep in touch” with friends. To me it’s the complete opposite and it’s a means to discover new personalities and explore new ideas. If I want to see what my actual friends are doing I call them it actually visit them.
another generational difference i suppose :)
Felt the same, but I love interacting with cool folks from different parts of the world 💜🫂
Very understandable. I use it because I have made it a habbit to myself to do so and because it is kinda like the "last sane place i have left". o.o
- Twitter? Dying, rotting, imploding.
- Reddit? Most of the cool peeps grabbed their stuff and went to Lemmy/kbin.
- Discord? Partially owned by Tencent. Not the worst, but definitively not the best way to communicate.
- Matrix? I like it a lot and use it daily, but it unfortunately has a good amount of flaws. Look at how unable they are to solve sync and even need a sliding sync proxy now o.o...
- Telegram? Eh... I used to trust it a lot because the outline seemed very private and secure, but this has gone to shambles to some degree and it is now massively being used for stuff I don't agree with. Like, I don't even know how much Telegram has "complied" with law enforcement at this point.
- Signal, Session? Got nobody on there. I managed to migrate the most important people to Telegram off WhatsApp (mainly because of their ToS changes and Facebook shenanigans that gave me an amazing foundation to do so)
- Instagram, Tiktok? I use both of them to message people that I can no longer message on Twitter, since DMs are effectively a pay-feature now unless two people follow each other, which can't always be managed and mandated if one of the parties *needs* a clean account. Say, Melleefresh (EDM DJ); she can't follow me and others because it would clutter up her feed. Insta and Tiktok still allow this kind of messaging, so its ... an option. But I dont like either of them. :/
Nostr is what's left and the stuff built off of it is genuely amazing and I plan to do the same! But it's bitcoin-closeness and the thus associated stigmata are a pain to work around. Though I did find a good way to explain Lightning as Twitch Bits, and showing my friends how I converted my sats to a prepaid masterCard that I could then use to buy stuff in Genshin Impact did impress them; From Crypto, to Euro, to in-game stuff. Granted, that was a LOT of KYC and I need a better alternative. x.x
So I totally get you... and I wish it was different.
^ this is why I use it more - No one I know irl uses it
Change your IRL friends 😂