If it’s a location, either the beach or the mountains. But more than a location it’s spending time with those I love.

🤙🏼

Swimming and surfing with friends 😎

The perfect day: watch the sunrise (preferably on a beach), coffee, meditation, hike, yoga, read, write, repeat 🧘‍♀️

Koh Phangan 😎

Anywhere, the happy place is within you (if you’re a monk) mine is after a workout, in my car heading home with music on

It's inside my head. 🫠

Me too

I’ll honestly pay sats for a TestFlight code for Damus at this point🫶

Hey all

Do you see my PFP? Or default robot?

Imagine the cumulative number of lost sleep from people sending notes at night and staying awake to see who liked their note

Maybe Nostrica or future nostr meetups can have a segment on the ethics of social media design 🤷‍♂️

Agreed, ideas are always good and discussing on them is just the process of creating information.

Imagine 2 people discussing some recent issue and one makes a statement supported by an old irrelevant article. We don’t need to censor anything but could say “hey this thing you’re about to spend time reading is old”.

This is just one of many ideas we could come up with - and may not even be a great one, who knows! Just having some ideas kicked around might be good

One example might be to prompt the user who is sharing a link from a known “news” site asking if they actually read the full article - and somehow indicate that in the note. It won’t be perfect but may help reduce instant reactions to clickbait articles. I see this problem on Twitter all the time - people posting clickbait stuff without reading the article and comments are all outraged - as desired

I guess one thing we can keep in mind when designing and building is how to offer people options and introduce mechanisms that limit addiction.

We’ve made a lot of good progress already like no ago (for now at least); and no note limit - these are all things that help bring discussion forward instead of optimizing for rapid fire engagement. But like you said, there are still features and loops that bring people back for more. I’m not sure what the ideal solution looks like but we have a blank slate in front of us and should take a serious look at designing clients that make us more mentally healthy, thoughtful and less addicted. I know also that we’re very addicted atm due to newness factor and it’s tempting to recreate all the same engagement mechanisms from Twitter, tiktok etc .

Early internet was weird and you could express yourself in ways you cannot today. MySpace was the last holdout of the early internet vibes. Once that disappeared, everything started trending to shit. Cookie cutter interface without customization forced on everyone for the sake of brand identity. More and more limits on how you can express yourself as an individual. Then it became all about monetization and squeezing every penny out of people. Features that addicted there mind with cheap thrills. Sadly, in some ways nostr is already beginning to trend that way and I hope devs pause and give a lot of thought to the things are copying from legacy social media.

Eventually it will stop again if we are successful. Then we will move on to buidl the next revolution

I know you said that the question was rhetorical, but I think that heavy monetization did that! Sad, but that is what happened when big money get involved 🐶🐾🐸😞