This is a possibility. Facebook and Twitter, from memory, WERE quite positive and fun when they were first blowing up. Smae with email.
Mass culture and participation seems to lower the denominator.
My intuition is that you’re correct, but I can’t articulate why.
What is it about the fundamental difference between Facebook/Twitter and a decentralized protocol that makes you confident it won’t *eventually* start to promote bad behavior for vanity and reward?
Right now most people who are here are quite positive and good natured as they want the environment to be welcoming to new users. I suspect Twitter and fb (fb to a lesser extent) were the same way. What is it about the fundamentals of #nostr that makes it less likely to evolve in that direction? #grownstr
Maybe nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m has some insight here as well? Maybe nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 too?
One of my main concerns, apart from the protocol staying sufficiently decentralized, is that we just end up with a decentralized hellscape instead of a centralized one. (Although, it would never be quite the same as Twitter because different types of clients, even within the genre of social media clients, allow users to easily pick up their data and move.) nostr:note1qsnktfmkpte4rvetfjen27pt0rkxk9p49y4r4dxn344gp9mpa24qlmdm94
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I liked what you and @z_cress are saying here. I think you may be right.
Now I’m thinking about it philosophically. Every creation has the potential for “good and evil” depending on your perspective of things.
I guess maybe the only thing to say is maybe humanity is growing out of certain systems being centralized. First finances and now speech. We’d rather have a protocol for connecting rather than a platform.
I don’t know most of humanity though so I might be wrong… 🤷♂️