PSA: This would be a good day to unfollow me.

Are there still places with vibes anymore? Or did the internet kind of kill it?

I feel like digital spaces have vibes. Nostr has a vibe for sure, but everywhere I go (in America at least) feels flat, steril and homogenous now.

People like to pretend otherwise, romanticizing local charm and it’s fun to do so, but in reality there is no meaningful difference between New York, LA, Chicago, Austin, Miami etc…

The differences feel increasingly superficial. Miami with its neon pink and bad Latin art. New York with its identical minimalist cafes selling identical oat lattes. These aren’t cities anymore, they’re brands. “Keep Austin Weird” feels less like the rallying cry of a bohemian collective and more like a safe corporate brand slogan.

It wasn’t always like this. Cities used to incubate true subcultures that couldn’t thrive anywhere else. Seattle once had grunge music emerging organically from local clubs, distinct in sound and attitude. Detroit was a birthplace for techno and industrial grit that couldn’t have been manufactured. New Orleans had jazz clubs and vibrant local traditions that permeated every street corner authentically. Before the internet collapsed distances, you could sense deep authenticity upon arriving somewhere new. The vibe wasn’t something designed by marketing departments; it was organically woven into the streets, the people, the music, and local myths.

Now, vibes feel engineered and commoditized, reduced to Instagrammable moments and easily replicable aesthetics. I once watched from the balcony of my hotel in Nashville as 200 women waited in line to take the same stupid picture with the same stupid set of angel wings.

Digital spaces, ironically, have become refuges of uniqueness, fostering communities unburdened by geographical homogenization. Platforms like nostr host unique niche communities, from hyper-specific gaming bitcoin cultural milieu to obscure philosophical discussions, that retain genuinely distinctive vibes.

Perhaps we’re now entering a strange inversion, where real-world spaces chase digital popularity, adopting blandness to maximize broad appeal.

In this inversion, digital worlds might become the primary spaces where unique vibes survive, thrive, and multiply—leaving our physical world as little more than a flattened reflection of what used to be.

Nostr is where the vibes are at.

Im right between cape and St. Louis in Farmington. Lot of bitcoiners around here, it's a good place!

in southeast mo, it hasnt gotten too wild yet but starting to hear branches fall on the roof 😬

tennessee and texas have deep roots - our next chapter together starts now 🫡

nashville 🤝 austin

bitcoin park 🤝 bitcoin park austin

I’m sure this does not mean much to any of you, but I was so happy today to have my fiat miner back from the body shop after having to be in a different big brown truck for the last two week… for delivery drivers like myself, our trucks are our office, or a second home… and now she’s back with a shiny new paint job 🚚📦✨ #cardboardwarriors #deliverylife

Trump’s first couple months 😂

TO ANYONE WHO BOUGHT BITCOIN TODAY YOU ARE A LEGEND!!!

I have about 8 close friends from high school. All now in their mid 30’s

Of the 8…

6 are unmarried and have never been married.

2 are married

4 have children. 4 do not.

Of the four that have kids they each have only 1 child.

Only 2 have what could meaningfully be considered a career. The rest work paycheck to paycheck.

Only 2 are home owners.

Is this common for millennials in america? Or is this just my friend group.

I’ll repeat

Any candidate in the U.S. who runs on changing this has my vote

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