reltbracco on Nostr: I now take more than I give with established social media, and this is reversed on ...
I now take more than I give with established social media, and this is reversed on Nostr. But Nostr-only is not in the cards for now.
Nostr simply does not have the rich network of people engaged in some of my interests that Facebook or Reddit does, YET.
This means that if I # asknostr something about pottery, there are like six of us here 🤷🏻♀️ they might or might not have a good answer, and might or might not see my post.
If I really want an answer, I can pop on Facebook where I have access to 3+ slightly different groups of hundreds of potters each and get 10+ answers in minutes.
Or when I visit the Biblical Christian Egalitarians group on Facebook, I learn a ton, get inspired, and feel less alone. I’m the only person I know of posting about this remaining on Nostr now that npub16llpfttm85ltrqc5ggyu5snfq38x6vwhanyrhrddpn43ylt3wdxqa99rf5 (npub16ll…9rf5) has left.
Learning and community are, to my view, the primary purposes of social media. I’m focusing on building here, and spend most of my social media time here by far. But when I want these things for myself, I still turn to centralized sources — not because I love algorithms or ban hammers, but because that’s where some of my people still are. They just aren’t here yet in numbers. And numbers do matter sometimes.
This is not a complaint about Nostr. “You can’t get mad at it, it’s just a baby!”
It is:
1. Solidarity for those who aren’t Nostr-only. Despite all the weird factionalism, there is no one right way to use this platform. Feel free to consider influence but discard pressure.
2. Encouragement to everyone to post on their niche interests AND keep trying to purple-pill people with niche interests.
3. A humble request to devs to continue working on user experience in communities/groups as far as possible.
#grownostr #notnostronly #keepnostrweird
Nostr simply does not have the rich network of people engaged in some of my interests that Facebook or Reddit does, YET.
This means that if I # asknostr something about pottery, there are like six of us here 🤷🏻♀️ they might or might not have a good answer, and might or might not see my post.
If I really want an answer, I can pop on Facebook where I have access to 3+ slightly different groups of hundreds of potters each and get 10+ answers in minutes.
Or when I visit the Biblical Christian Egalitarians group on Facebook, I learn a ton, get inspired, and feel less alone. I’m the only person I know of posting about this remaining on Nostr now that npub16llpfttm85ltrqc5ggyu5snfq38x6vwhanyrhrddpn43ylt3wdxqa99rf5 (npub16ll…9rf5) has left.
Learning and community are, to my view, the primary purposes of social media. I’m focusing on building here, and spend most of my social media time here by far. But when I want these things for myself, I still turn to centralized sources — not because I love algorithms or ban hammers, but because that’s where some of my people still are. They just aren’t here yet in numbers. And numbers do matter sometimes.
This is not a complaint about Nostr. “You can’t get mad at it, it’s just a baby!”
It is:
1. Solidarity for those who aren’t Nostr-only. Despite all the weird factionalism, there is no one right way to use this platform. Feel free to consider influence but discard pressure.
2. Encouragement to everyone to post on their niche interests AND keep trying to purple-pill people with niche interests.
3. A humble request to devs to continue working on user experience in communities/groups as far as possible.
#grownostr #notnostronly #keepnostrweird
quoting note1unm…7ma2I still post on other socials, but I treat it like a small gamble. Very risky with limited reward.
I now only put real investment into #Nostr and #Pear.
Investing serious time and energy in traditional social just feels like trading shitcoins now. It’s dumb, and a waste of precious resources. note1zur…nnga