Timechain on Nostr: (Cross-posted from a 5 tweet thread thread) Years of Bitcoin Twitter being the main ...
(Cross-posted from a 5 tweet thread thread)
Years of Bitcoin Twitter being the main app where discussing Bitcoin happens recently has had effects on the community. It rewards short-hot extreme takes. The more extreme, the better. This causes the most engagement, which causes the algorithm to reward you but is it good for the community?
Also, I am in my second tweet. This is because I am a nym, and nyms have a character limit, as did everyone for most of Twitter's history. Concepts that required more nuance than 280 characters allowed simply were stripped down to a all-or-nothing version of the argument. (Any change to Bitcoin is an attack on Bitcoin.) BitcoinTalk, or even.. Redd.. well at least BitcoinTalk had much higher level conversations.
Enter Nostr.
No Algorithms. No Character limits
I really think the Bitcoin community spending years communicating primarily over Twitter is the main culprit in the cartoonish version of the Bitcoin maximalist.
To keep on getting picked up by the algorithm, you have to be more and more extreme than the rest of the crowd.
How can you display any nuance in 280 characters?
You can't. You can write a metaphor. You can quote someone else's tweet and dunk on them.
Nostr will reward real content creators with the world's best money.
Twitter rewarded shitposters with followers.
Years of Bitcoin Twitter being the main app where discussing Bitcoin happens recently has had effects on the community. It rewards short-hot extreme takes. The more extreme, the better. This causes the most engagement, which causes the algorithm to reward you but is it good for the community?
Also, I am in my second tweet. This is because I am a nym, and nyms have a character limit, as did everyone for most of Twitter's history. Concepts that required more nuance than 280 characters allowed simply were stripped down to a all-or-nothing version of the argument. (Any change to Bitcoin is an attack on Bitcoin.) BitcoinTalk, or even.. Redd.. well at least BitcoinTalk had much higher level conversations.
Enter Nostr.
No Algorithms. No Character limits
I really think the Bitcoin community spending years communicating primarily over Twitter is the main culprit in the cartoonish version of the Bitcoin maximalist.
To keep on getting picked up by the algorithm, you have to be more and more extreme than the rest of the crowd.
How can you display any nuance in 280 characters?
You can't. You can write a metaphor. You can quote someone else's tweet and dunk on them.
Nostr will reward real content creators with the world's best money.
Twitter rewarded shitposters with followers.