*taking a little time, God damn why can't I edit posts
>devs are throwing everything and the kitchen sink at their codebase without taking a time to consider the long-term implications of their choices
I guess it's part of the Bitcoin ethos, that they've spent the last decade and a half being shit on, so developed a complete immunity to all criticism whatsoever. At least the fediverse people came at it from the perspective of wanting a conversation, instead of a specific conversation, even if the protocol there is more easily abused.
It doesn't seem likely you're going to get much of a reply to opinions that go against their already decided-upon consensus.
They love the addiction. Getting more people addicted means more people to pump their bags.
I don't claim to be immune, but I'm exposed to way more right-wing thinking from 4chan/fedi/etc. So this serves to balance out the edges. I also used to like listening to the Japan Times English shortwave radio broadcasts when I was able to get them. State media, but they were less partisan than Canadian news at least.
I don't take a lot of it seriously, but it's nice to have a news feed in my RSS reader. Also fedi for news of course.
Well if you're happy to have a conversation, have you at all thought about the warped incentives zaps cause? Look at the global timeline, it's a hive-mind of lowest-common-denominator thinking, where everyone's just there to farm endorphins and money. I mean, Twitter was designed to be addictive, so maybe that's what you're into. But in terms of fueling real discussion it's counterproductive.
We need Michael Burry to come on, post a bunch of dumb shit, then freak out when he realizes he can't wipe his account.
I had thought of that afterwards, tried deleting it, but lucky for me nostr won't let me chicken out.
I mean, you guys will figure it out. ActivityPub has features like MRF policies that blocking or hiding posts that exceed a certain number of mentions, length limits, etc.
I mean, this is why the nostr people should have paid at least some attention to the fediverse (pleroma, misskey, mastodon, etc.) before launching their platform. Since the ActivityPub people have been working on this "problem" for over a decade.
Don't worry. When the price is up they'll start posting about it nonstop.
Urbit is basically like nostr, but it's less shitty and better at filtering people.
They merely adopted decentralization, we were born in it, molded by it. We didn't see decent threads until we were already mindbroken by schizoposting and bussy spam.