#Nosternal September

September 2023, exactly 30 years from the start of Eternal September, when the internet first started gaining critical mass

LFG!!!

Tfw you are blind zapping without realizing

I thought I had to reply 🤙 to zap but it does it when I press the button 😭🤣 (zapplepay on Damus)

What's eternal september?

It's fine! Distressed by all the SHIT on bsky but I'm happier to be wherever you are!

hey friend!

Making a note on #norstr 🏃‍♀️

I feel there’s a lot of confusion from the users and also maybe among the team regarding like.. the differences in goals between bluesky and atproto

Branding as a twitter alternative created a community that doesn’t understand or want to understand decentralization, federation, etc

there’s a big gap in understanding there

I don’t know, but I know the J curve is real and I have to remind myself of that sometimes

not having a team of devs and leadership to yell at is a good start tho

private invite only beta was curated and created a culture that wasn’t ready to deal with the baddies (are_we_the_baddies.jpg) when they showed up.

the place goes kill circle and I want to speak with the manager real fucking fast

but that can’t scale

the algo is a double edge sword, and we still don’t have that, yet

we’re more mute culture here

if people start going off on people, people just mute, some leave, and it’s ok to take a break from social media

we’re learning as we go too, just have a different build approach

Oh. Fair enough, but the answer is probably still the same. People will find their tribe. I’m glad you’re here anyways.

does it show total users and also active users somewhere?

what do you think was the catalyst of it pivoting like that 🤔

In the pleb community we have a phrase that we use for friends and enemies equally: GFY

Try it out sometime. It’s amazingly freeing

I think pne of the fundamental difference is who is in charge of the moderation.

As bluesky (and any centralized platform) scales, more people show up with a wider and wider spectrum of tolerance. Because of this, more rules have to be made to satisfy the easily offended etc. You play to the lowest common denominator since you can only cast a single net that applies to all. But this eventually results in so many restrictions that most users will feel boxed in. This breeds resentment and toxicity.

Nostr sidesteps all of this. You alone are in charge of the moderation and your moderation decisions affect you and only you. The most sensitive and easily offended person can moderate their feed to the Nth degree while still allowing the most bigoted person in the world to shout their racism into the void. All parties get what they want. This breeds contentment and happiness.

Two major twitter crashes have really pushed a lot of twitter traffic to bsky

Lack of communication from devs over community issues & the goals of the project led to negative sentiment of bsky on twitter which pushed over a lot of trolls who would take advantage of the situation

It changed pretty suddenly from a warm friendly community to people turning on each other and constant context collapse, especially with new twitter folks coming in and seeing discourse they don’t have full context for and then dogpiling or just using any shitty chance to get their voices heard