This article by Jeff Booth from about a year ago didn't go where I was expecting it would. It begins like this:
as AI does more of the work, human beings end up interacting with bots while believing their time is productive. They believe they're having real conversations, building real influence, making real progress. But they're spinning inside an endless loop. A simulation inside the matrix that changes nothing.
But then Booth says he's set up an agent to do his social media posting on places like X because it's not real anyway. Instead, Booth says:
If you're content sparring with an AI that reflects my ideas, you'll find plenty to engage with. But if you're hungry for something different—if you want signal over noise, sovereignty over convenience, and connection over likes—I invite you to seek me out where real conversations happen.
And where is that?
I'm on Nostr, building on a protocol-native space that cannot censor information.
This is surprising to me. He writes an article that says the problem is AI gobbling up attention, distracting people, weighing them down with pseudo interaction...and then says he's on nostr because of censorship resistance.
What resistance does nostr have to AI agents eclipsing your time? It's surprising to me that he doesn't see that pay to post is an attempt at fixing the problem he is describing and that nostr really hasn't solved it (#1425208).
I wonder how Jeff Booth feels about this post he made from a year ago. It seems that he still feels strongly about it:
I actually like Jeff's optimistic outlook on things even if I can't share the sentiment in a world without people actually doing something to make that real. But then to his credit, he is working on it / funding people that work on it, so that's somewhat hopeful.
Client-side filtering, but arguably the X
followingtab (used to?) does that too. So it's either way a bit of a non issue, I think.Sidenote: This new njump thing is awful lol
I'm unclear if the X following tab has ever done what the average user like me thought it would do (just show me a chronological list of posts from people I follow). They brought back the Following > Recent vs Following > Popular thing (I think it's brought back -- I seem to remember it from a few years ago) but it doesn't seem to make things any better for me. It doesn't vanish the slop as much as I'd like it to.
I suppose when I'm on nostr I don't see that many slop posts. I've assumed this has more to do with the fact that no one is targeting it than it does with effective client side filtering. This is possibly my naivete speaking.
I was impressed that Booth stuck with the nostr use. It is cool that people like that run funds.
Unfollowing people made it much better for me back in the day.
I do but I follow people that say GM on nostr and I should just stop following them (but then, I don't check nostr even weekly haha)
GM
Talk to a bot could be easily revealed from discussions.