Twitter is kind of depressing the hell out of me, though.
Has there been any thought given to having more automatic public relay discovery in an app like Damus? I don't think it should necessarily be a protocol-level thing, given that relay discrimination can be a feature of the protocol where balkanization is actually *desirable*. But for the Twitter-replacement general purpose case, this seems like something that could safely be hidden from the vast majority of users.
Should I just completely switch to posting on Nostr exclusively and stop posting to my Twitter account?
Had to try three times to send a tweet. Notifications aren't loading. Everything's fine.
Twitter is really a mean-spirited place these days.
It's eventually going to take relay software that can scale horizontally. Not just be optimized vertically.
Thank you!
I don't hate you, either!
No. Addicted to the engagement that the algorithms farm for, which creates more ad impressions -- while making us all hate each other.
One remaining problem is Apple and Google are not exactly incentivized to embrace this trend, exactly.
I think the smartphone revolution had a lot to do with retarding the development of open protocols. Because when iPhones and Androids first hit the scene, the issue was limited bandwidth, limited storage limited compute and battery. So moving everything into mostly hosted platforms was the machine-sympathetic trade off. But we're increasingly in a world where bandwidth is plentiful, performance-per-watt and local storage is no longer a constraint. People are walking around with smartphones with a TB of storage these days!
If anything, we're reaching a world where mobile compute and mobile storage is under-utilized!
It's really this new landscape that truly enables a brighter, more decentralized future.
Because it's addictive, unfortunately.
I still haven't worked out the implications of this in my head. Although, the biggest thought that keeps popping into my head is: maybe social media should never have become what Twitter and Instagram did. It started out as friends, building community. That's what made them so magical and fun. I think that's why Nostr feels magical and fun right now. It *seems* on the surface, that absent the perverse incentives to engagement farming for advertisers, it could *stay* that way?
Thank you!
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I do think the key management issue is going to be a problem for a lot of people, still. Understanding how to manage a private key, keep it secure, keep it backed up, is a lot of cognitive load for the average person. These are solvable problems. But they are problems for mass adoption.
I mean, my phone number and email address is going to be doxxed as part of this. As are millions of people. Which is fun.
I deleted it because I recognized it could legitimately be seen as a violating of the doxxing policy, since the link contained sample data, including private email addresses and phone numbers. Not that they're not just fully out there at this point.