152 sats \ 3 replies \ @nullama 16 Sep \ on: Stacker Saloon
I feel like around a decade or so ago (maybe a bit more?) was the goldilocks period for the web.
Social media was transitioning from MySpace to Facebook... solving the real problem of getting people's photos and stories online, reconnecting with people you haven't seen in years, etc.
Then I feel like in the last decade or so it has been mostly on decline, just ads everywhere and trying to maximize every single thing to make the site more profitable.
That's when new "social media" like Tinder started to appear, which in the beginning was relatively OK, but in this past decade has turned into a sea of bots and subscriptions, etc.
I don't like to feel this way, so I will end with a positive side, which are the things like Stacker News, absolutely amazing content and community.
I hope I get to discover more of these incredible new things. ChatGPT certainly has changed the game again, and I still think we are living in the "nice" period of it, before it turns into just a money making machine.
I never used MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, instagram etc even that I was in touch with computers and online presence (working in IT) almost all my life. I never like it.
But Bitcoin changed a bit my perspective. In the early Bitcoin years I was lurking around on BitcoinTalk Forum and Reddit r/Bitcoin but also didn't post too much. The block size war made me to leave behind reddit for good. It became such a shithole after that.
But then came Stacker News and Nostr. This is game changer. Totally something else.
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The "Stack": Bitcoin, Lightning, Nostr, and eCash. The innovations happening with this stack will lead to mass adoption. Killer apps are coming and Facebook, Twitter, Insta will be displaced by decentralized Nostr apps. Content creators will have much more portability with their followers. Which they monetize directly with zaps. This structure will also disrupt the massive Ad industry, orange pill millions, and power the Bitcoin economy.
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this is 100% true. i feel like 2012 was a golden period for a lot of things and goldilocks period is an excellent way of thinking about it.
house prices weren't so high, inflation wasn't so crazy, we didn't have culture wars and you could still go to bars without everyone being on their phones all the time.
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