Indeed. Anyway, I will keep on replying, but I won't post any of my content for now.
Dear friends, I’ve decided to slow down posting here on #nostr. The lack of control over the content and the audience are significant drivers.
I’ll keep the account, but it’ll be mildly active for now.
Until the next time.
Have a fantastic evening
Young, and deeply care about it in many different ways
Because you don't have to read your emails after the sunset. Stay healthy ✌️🏻
The problem is about functionality.
When I don't want to get tracked, or for the part of my life that does not need an audience, I use other measures, adopt different behaviours, and the last thing I want is to write anything that stays there without control, right?
You don't need a protocol that allows this kind of communion when you need to be private.
On the other hand, when you want to share content, you need people to have a consistent experience and control over your posts.
The monetisation part is also meh.
And without the proper instruments and audience, it all comes down to people sharing random sentences and simps sending a few sats.
And the most of the content is there to say how cool is nostr.
A lot of nothingness.
So what's there? Apps. But apps built on the top of a protocol hardly provide any value if not a bunch of degens hoping for airdrops and making cash on the next run.
And even biting the anti-censorship part, let's say for journalists or refugees. When they send out a message, who is the audience?
The users of that specific app, for that specific platform. It doesn't resonate much.
There should be less talking and better perspectives on developing a platform that delivers features and functionality enough to appeal to a bigger audience.
I mostly worked on finishing three pieces and picked a feature request on one of my repos. Workout in the morning, workout now, food.
I'd say a workday without the 9/5 interferences ✌️🏻
Bad weather and the flight in two days contributed to this laziness
Happy for you. 🫶🏻
Cutting time for ourselves makes such a difference in how we deal with the daily grinding
I must admit that I'm struggling to find a decent use case for #nostr as protocol.
The clients are often inconsistent, which makes the user experience poor or impaired. Some are extremely capable, others are basic.
Also, where are the old posts? They are lost somewhere and hardly loaded. There is no separation between media and text notes, which makes it hard for artists to showcase their work.
The filtering by hashtag is okay, but more is needed. The scrolling becomes a lot heavy after a while.
I might find it interesting as a coder, but that's different from my goal here at the moment. Also, the conversations with "notes and reply" are suboptimal because the notifications point to a specific point of the discussion. Then it is all about digging your way back to the original note.
No censorship is fantastic, but there is no spam protection, either. More control over your own content would be handy.
I'm not defending or supporting any bird, but this is far from being an alternative.
I'm not giving up yet, but it doesn't work for me so far.
Aside from the cameo with Burroughs, that is worth the whole movie ;)
Gus Van Sant paints without hypocrisy what society despises and judges. The effort and need to overcome the addiction, change life, and have a chance is raw, not cheesy. Instead of picturing it as "bad", he builds a movie that shows it as it is without trying to filter it or making it acceptable for a mediocre audience.