2544 sats \ 8 replies \ @Public_N_M_E 10 Aug 2023 \ on: NOSTR is not going to fix anything :( nostr
Honestly, after using it for only a couple weeks I am getting the same vibe.
There's next to zero engagement it's just zap begging.
Post after post is just trying to get zaps rather than having them come naturally through engagement.
It does feel like a circle jerk of people all trying to just get zaps rather than produce content.
I think (hope) this is a temporary state. We need a critical mass of interesting people to follow who also engage.
The poor engagement is the most surprising aspect to me. I expected it to be more like SN in that respect, where people really seem interested in discussion, but people rarely reply when I comment on their posts.
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I think nostr suffers from the same fate as other attempts of bitcoin Twitter mass exodus, like to Mastodon. Initial enthusiasm where everyone joins and there is a short period of heavy usage and engagement. Then people figure out how to cross post from Twitter and then it becomes a graveyard of mindless zombie accounts. Sad to see.
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That's what Minds was like when I joined last year, but now those accounts are largely silent and a lot of authentic engagement remains.
Even if nostr gets flooded with cross posting from big X personalities, that might help solve nostr's discovery problem. People can find each other in the replies on those accounts.
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> We just need more people on the solana discord to vote on the solana DAO proposal and actually just engage on the solana platform with the solana nfts
That's what you sound like if you think shit is gonna fix itself through the good will of others. Social media isn't charity work
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Was that meant as a reply to me? Because, I don't see the relevance.
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> We NEED a critical mass of interesting people to follow who also engage.
WHY?
Nostr should structure itself to enable that kind of ecosystem, not beg for it. Stacker news enabled that kind of ecosystem for Bitcoiners without begging for it. Why should nostr rely on wishful thinking?
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I'm sure randomly jumping in the middle of polite conversations with belligerent irrelevant criticisms will really drive engagement. I mean, you can't find that anywhere else on the internet.
Nostr is already structured to "enable that kind of ecosystem". If nostr enthusiasts want us to use it, then it's up to them to make it a place we want to go. It's not up to us to just want to be there.
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MY SINCERE APOLOGIES
I am very passionate about this, but that is still no excuse for my actions
I just don't think it's a good growth strategy to rely on enthusiasts
Crypto companies talked a lot about "community" and "community-driven protocols" and "daos" and all that shit. It was an easy way for them to genuinely delude themselves into thinking they were making a difference. Just because we got people buying into this shit who get the ideology doesn't mean we're running an experiment that is working.
The real test that nostr needs to pass to truly be called a decentralized social media is people who don't actually give a shit about nostr using nostr because it just is better than the alternatives
This is what I was trying to communicate in a manner as snarky and as belligerently as possible.
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