Just as an update from “normie internet” for those who are Nostr-only:
Perhaps the most dangerous thing that is happening is the psychological manipulation of public opinion through siloing users with interest-or-outrage algorithms plus providing near zero protection against AI-driven bot armies in the comments, that give the illusion of consensus for extremism on both “sides”. I read the JFK files, so I have my suspicions about who this benefits and it isn’t the American public.
The second most dangerous thing happening is the censorship. The content moderation (or “community guidelines”) on other social media apps has gotten absolutely insane. I have to speak in code to keep my videos up because even saying the word Trump or Palestinian, for example, will get me throttled or flagged. Saying Russia or Israel gets me bot-swarmed and then flagged. Smh. Political topics have become completely blacklisted (now that the election is over 🙄) and now conspiracy topics are also being shut down.
I’m attaching an image of my “saved videos” tab from TikTok so yall can just get a feeling for how many videos are being taken down.
I have garnered 100k+ followers, but an average video of mine gets about 2k views, so what’s even the point of having that large of an audience? I’m not monetized for views on tiktok because when I tried their monetization program, my views went down to 200. I suppose that’s “legal censorship” of employees, so I quit taking their hush money.
But yeah if you’re looking around wondering what is happening to our culture… that’s what’s happening. We need a true public square, and that’s what I think NOSTR is helping to create.
Keep ya head on a swivel. Love yall. #grownostr