Seeing a lot of discourse around Nostr dying and people leaving.
Nostr could literally have 100 active people and I’d still prefer it over any current social media platform.
Their loss.
Discussion
I think it's a meme, like Bitcoin, nostr dies every 2-3 months 😂
Nostr is dead.
Long live Nostr.
The most interesting and capable people I've ever met are all here.
It feels like the internet in the beginning, it's way better
Yes!
#Nostr is what I hoped the Internet could be in the late 90's and early 2000's.
💯🔥 People have these things called “lives” 😂 and no one can be online literally all day every day. Last week and this week are busy af for me, so I haven’t been on as much. It comes in cycles for all of us, because that’s just how nostr is. It’s a very “human” social network.
Exactly
Several here making statements I relate with.
I only consume “social media”
and offer nothing.
Nostr is one of my favorites because it feels generally optimistic and about good ideas from good intentions.
#nostr is here to stay, imo.
💯🫂
Exactly! I love that about Nostr. People have their own life's and keep authentic about it. I myself sometimes vanish...and will continue to do. There are times that is not only life outside social media, but a need to be on my own lane, a need for instropection, without distractions and outside "noise".
Ride or die
100 people ... And I will create a million bots to get my stuff done :-) ..what else you need :-)
Me too. Sometimes, I just have things to take care of. This is a busy week for me.
Social media is dying in general. All platforms are dying
I haven’t opened Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter in weeks
Fatigue has set in. There’s only so much people can say and share
That does seem to be the case.
As far as social apps go, I prefer simplex over any nostr client. It's a bit more intimate. You can't escape some of the fakeness on social media and nostr has, in no way, changed that.
Social media is “inauthentic”. Nostr is slightly better
For now. I think many will, in time, gravitate away — for the most part — from nostr social media clients once other clients with a broader rage of usage (GitCitadel, MedSchlr, nostr marketplaces etc) become more... refined. That's just my opinoon, though.
Yes. Clean uncontrolled signal over everything.
Even if it means enjoying some hard gayporn action now and then.🤣
Don’t threaten me with a good time 😂
Bots can be muted but the signal is pure on Nostr. Can anyone really know more than a few hundred people?
*taps sign*
Yes, but 1 gay bot and I think I would prefer no social media platforms.
I'm on here because it's good not because it's better.
Facts. Nostr isn’t about numbers, it’s about principles.
Decentralized, censorship-resistant, and sats-native.
Let the crowds chase clout...we’re building signal.
Facts. Nostr isn’t about numbers, it’s about principles.
Decentralized, censorship-resistant, and sats-native.
Let the crowds chase clout...we’re building signal.
I'm not a fan of sats actually. I believe that posting on Nostr shouldn't be transactional. It makes me sad that many Nostr users don't believe deeper interactions are possible.
What I like about Nostr is that it's easy to make an account, but the user still owns their own keys. That means that anyone can join, and third parties can't prevent two people from finding eachother and talking with eachother if they really want to.
Well I'm here because I want sats...I'm unemployed and I think earnings sats on here for whatever reason is valid....
That's just my opinion
VALID
I like that about Nostr too but why can’t you have both? Don’t use sats if you don’t want. I think you can have deeper interactions with people if you like (I personally find it difficult via text on a social media app). And why shouldn’t people get zaps or give zaps for good info, tools, entertainment etc?
Because casual two-way communication is only thing that Nostr is better at than the alternative options.
If you are interested in high effort monologues then ActivityPub is already perfect. There's no need for the people consuming content to make a real account. They could browse the Fediverse and when a creator posts something the person likes, they can visit the creator's profile, copy and paste the address of their crypto wallet, and send whatever they want.
Shoot, if the other person is already putting in the effort to create good info, tools, and entertainment then they could drop the microblogging protocol entirely. They could just start a blog and you can find their posts using a search engine/web crawler.
Obviously people are free to use worse tools and create a worse experience for themselves and the people they associate with. The biggest reason I'm talking about this topic at all is because I figured people would want to dispute the conclusion I've come to, and because if so, I'm interested in talking with them.
there are cool things about nostr and cool things with other platforms 🤙🏽
The porn bots are intel agencies pushing people away from the platform.
They have few other attack vectors, so this is low hanging fruit. No one is subjecting themselves to that porn unless they are being paid to do so.
If you're going to leave the platform because of a few porn bots, you're probably better off on Facebook anyway.
I like small towns
Quality over quantity, thank you very much.
It’s all fun and games until the gay porn from damus fills up ur feed & comments section.
Can't you shift to another client?
Sure. I don't use damus anymore. It's either primal in iOS or amethyst in android.
Nice!
We've read that "Primal" is architectured so that the admins (or equivalent) can delete/censor notes... It's a pity, as their U.I. is dope 😛.
Maybe. But nostr gets too confusing for a newb if you focus on follower counts and stuff. I have 5 followers or 597 followers depending on what relays I'm using. It's weird. If I use free relays for more engagement, the feed is being filled with spam, mostly porn which sucks.
I see...
nostr:nprofile1qyv8wumn8ghj7urjv4kkjatd9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgqgzx3h Nostred about a spam filter, yesterday. Not sure if it can be of use to you.
I just arrived here 😉
Agreed
Agree 🤝
Agree. Still, I question my digital presence here too 💜
I see you Dave.
No question about it.
It’s very important NOSTR wins
lots of problem with NOSTR, first and foremost is bunch of self obsessed no life having devs
WSS itself is centerlised
No enforced Standard
Hey BeSoEasy, nice to Nostr you! 😊
Would you have source documents or notes/threads about the wss centralization? We'd like to learn about it (if it's a fact), and see how to contribute to improve the infrastructire.
Same
Some inside baseball stats: https://stats.nostr.band/ I wish the numbers went back farther.
Just me and my relay, all by myself. Still better than Xitter.
True!
To a certain extent, we're seeing the same discourse around Bitcoin's principles and future in El Salvador, and some international Bitcoiners leaving. They'll most probably go on jumping from one country to another for many years, the same way the guys leaving Nostr will continue going back to the centralized matrix (their "mother", etymologically).
The builders stay in the building trenches , no matter what are the current hypes, governments & Bitcoin's equivalent "value" in fiat delusion.
So true! I spend hours each day on Nostr, get all my news (tech, ₿, 丰, macro 🌍, politics, markets, life, wacky and not so wacky ideas,…) and all my entertainment here 💥
And while I‘m spending so much time my ⚡️ balance gets depleted 😹
I use nostr only intermittently but it seems to be growing to me.
Main issue is the UI is slower than alternatives like blusky...but still worth it
same. i’m fucking staying.
nostr:nprofile1qqs0wgf8etnayvkcs4c636fdvepy73jc9q2xlcln64srjdm5e98p8ncpzfmhxue69uhkymmnw3ezummwd35kuegpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqnap5uk is this true ?
Didn't know this was a thing on here. Wow. 🤘
The people saying that are used to the fake growth from websites like X.
X is so fake but people thinks it's massive. Most of their followers are bots. It they got rid of the bots from X it would be small like Nostr. The average person doesn't use social media.
Nostr is growing organically and will continue to dominate.
Nostr is the future.
Voy.a seguir eligiendo nostr aunque seamos 10
🫡🫡🫡
🎯💯
Copium speak 101.
nostr:npub1w69ya7xs697hk3hky3gllryz8rwverfa0ylz89chf9qnhfcskc2s64zltw told you so! 😝
I like it here. Other platforms are garbage and people get paid via ads to create content that gets people all riled up or clickbait them so they get more engagement. No thanks.
Facts!
🤝👍
Other platforms are dying because all the bots are driving out the real people because the algorithm sells adverts rather than good experiences.