pourteaux on Nostr: having spent some time on Threads, i actually think it will be successful. its ...
having spent some time on Threads, i actually think it will be successful.
its success though isn’t in anything that Nostr is trying to achieve.
instead, Threads seems to be focused on a conversation around influencers (celebrity and NFT promoters) the same way that twitter (used to) be a conversation around news and the journalists reporting on it.
in fact, this seems to be a secular trend of fracturing of social media platforms generally that probably has been ongoing since the rise of facebook.
where twitter used to be all-purpose, it’s now:
Twitter: laggards and Musk loyalists
Bluesky: journalists and liberals
Nostr: bitcoiners and cypherpunks
Threads: influencers (celebrities, NFTs)
Farcaster: ethereans
Truth social, Gab: qAnon, MAGA, xenophobia
i think this is the new normal for social media. RIP the general purpose platform.
its success though isn’t in anything that Nostr is trying to achieve.
instead, Threads seems to be focused on a conversation around influencers (celebrity and NFT promoters) the same way that twitter (used to) be a conversation around news and the journalists reporting on it.
in fact, this seems to be a secular trend of fracturing of social media platforms generally that probably has been ongoing since the rise of facebook.
where twitter used to be all-purpose, it’s now:
Twitter: laggards and Musk loyalists
Bluesky: journalists and liberals
Nostr: bitcoiners and cypherpunks
Threads: influencers (celebrities, NFTs)
Farcaster: ethereans
Truth social, Gab: qAnon, MAGA, xenophobia
i think this is the new normal for social media. RIP the general purpose platform.