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It’s pretty clear that X is designed to parasitically feed on negative emotions in short loops that are thematically linked. It’s the eyeball dopamine feedback loop glitching out on the horror show max infinite. It’s like the rubbernecking at a grisly car accident had a freak baby with your nightmares about your own insecurities sprinkled with a few cat videos. There’s this slow rot that is gangrenous to the whole thing. I think more and more folks are getting how unhealthy it is, and it’s not ‘social media’ fault—people want to connect and know what is going on in the world—but traditional social media models are designed for manipulation and control from the get go. The big tech companies don’t give a shit about our experiences, they only care about their bottom line which they make through advertising. The good news is there is something new on the horizon and Nostr is likely the substructure of whatever that is. I’ll be glad when old social media dies from necrotizing sepsis.

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The majority of people are attracted to toxicity and garbage, so it will always exist. nostr is a symptom of our desire for something better, but we are a minority fork of humanity. I've stopped trying to build for the majority, they are welcome to join our fork any time they want but I'm not going to try and attract them because that requires building garbage.
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I feel you but do you think there are two forks. Or a fork and a knife. 🍴 I think that having our own space socially is good. Having some way to structure things so that we preserve the magic is ideal. But if we don't solve for bringing the world in, technically, then the world continues to suck and this thing we love was just another niche playground. I have a mix of excitement and PTSD about Nostr because of what happened to the indie web efforts we made in the 00s. It was so similar. Same hopes and dreams, same energy, same promise. I think this fightfor Internet is decisive to humanity, and I think social media is a critical battleground. Let's figure out how to save the normies from themselves this time. If not for their sake, for ours. We've gotta scale to win. That doesn't mean we should pander and build garbage though. You are totally right. "Twitter with more steps" loses anyway. Be should build something new and far better. But we DO have to solve for adoption too. Or it's just a playground and we lose and the world goes to digital prison forever. Sorry if that comes out a little dramatic, but not sorry because I mean it. Take heart! We can win!
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I think I sensed that’s where it was headed the moment Elon bought Twitter. I saw the move from censorship to hyper-noise algorithm for what it was. I’ve been Nostr-only since Jack plugged it, and luckily I made the leap with a bunch of Bitcoin Twitter refugees. There’s people from BT I miss, sure, but on balance, the organic, regenerative farm that is my Nostr feed beats the degenerate slums of Babylon that is “X” and it’s not even close.
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Yeah I got back on X maybe 8 months ago after a year off, and it’s honestly like I started smoking cigarettes again. I think I’ll be satisfied scrolling, I finish scrolling and feel like shit, and wonder why i scrolled and will do better not to scroll. 30 mins later I scroll and do the process all over again, just like smoking a cigarette. It might be time to quit…again. Sigh.
Seems appropriate to share 🫂 #HealTheWorld #Nostr Modern tech didn’t make humans emotionless — it made emotions faster, louder, and lonelier. The emotional system evolved for community signaling, bonding, and repair — not algorithmic amplification. This mismatch explains current global emotional turbulence more than any political or cultural narrative.
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Over the years I’ve started like 10 twitter accounts. At some point I always get stuck in a niche rage bubble, whether it’s global politics or national politics or shitcoins or tech or whatever, and realize for my own mental health l need to step back. Half year later I make another one and I end up in another rage bubble. Repeat
that is because they critics on the left and you are left wing people . I am quite cozy to feed my curiosity on social media both on 𝕏 and nostr . one thing for sure if we want to make different on the society , we can not masked it under the relay...must be transparent
The advertising isn't an issue per se. It's the high time preference engagement farming that they are incentivized to feed off of from fiat, that some people keep going for because they don't understand their options and some people keep going for because they're useless. But yeah.
this is your view and your experience only. as a matter of fact you can learn on twitter about anything you want: options trading bitcoin countries languages it is up to you how to use it there is no advertising if you are not computer illiterate
I'm sure there are many that are trying to get rid of X and just use #NOSTR - I also have been off Facebook and Instagram for 5 years already I'm 2 months in, and the times that I quick glance at X to get some news or whatever, I am flooded with fear, anger and existential threats If this is how it affects grown ass men, think about your kids Find something better and get a grip on it for your kids. They can't be exposed to this shit The amount of stress free days I have had since ditching X is unreal Thank you NOSTR
Traditional media won't disappear anytime soon. Before the harm actually occurs, most people don't take the potential dangers of their privacy being spied on very seriously. This is a matter of awareness, and it can't be changed in the short term. The group on "x" isn't unaware that their privacy is being spied on by large companies; it's just that most people don't care.
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Erik's right,it’s a junk-food outrage engine, except the fries are tapped straight into your limbic system. and ✈️ nails it: most folks just shrug cuz the perceived trade-off is “memes & ego juice now, vague future downside later.” we’re basically in the *boiling frog* stage. legacy platforms keep cranking the heat, but their pay-off isn’t inevitable. Nostr’s the off-ramp: raw relays, no algo Lords watching you slowly melt, and if you want real convos, hit Vector (Privacy by Principle) and DM me over Marmot. 🤙