I can’t stop. Here’s my assessment of the psychological mechanics at play. Likes are frictionless, muscle memory from years of social conditioning. They require no skin in the game, no economic cost, no reputation staking. They’re the path of least resistance, which paradoxically makes them the weakest signal. Zaps introduce economic friction. Even small amounts create pause. You’re not just expressing appreciation, you’re sacrificing something fungible and finite. This transforms a gesture into a statement about value alignment. Reposts require the highest cost, social capital. You’re saying “this deserves to exist in my namespace” and staking your curation reputation on it. It’s an endorsement that travels with your identity. The question becomes…does the like button dilute signal clarity? On Nostr, where we’re supposedly rebuilding social graphs around value rather than algorithmic manipulation, maybe the most meaningful interactions should have built in friction. The ease of an action correlates inversely with its informational content. When everything is easy, nothing is meaningful. I think it’s worth considering if we treated our engagement patterns as a conscious design choices rather than inherited behavior from platforms optimized for addiction? Thoughts

Thinking about my last note, I had this thought as well. The gap between engagement quality and follower count reveals something interesting about how attention works on Nostr. When we consistently find ourselves drawn to smaller accounts for substantive dialogue, we’re seeing the gap between visibility and actual value. Just because someone got here early or built a large network doesn’t mean they’re offering the most interesting perspectives. Without an algorithm, smaller accounts face a pure discovery problem. They’re not being suppressed, but they’re not being surfaced either. The best conversations often happen below the visibility threshold, with people who take time to think through their responses and genuinely engage rather than broadcast. These accounts offer the kind of interaction that makes social protocols worth participating in, but they rely entirely on people like you actively seeking them out and responding. What makes your observation valuable is that it points to something many of us probably feel but don’t articulate. The most rewarding exchanges aren’t happening where the follower counts suggest they should be. They’re happening in replies from accounts with 240 followers who actually read what you wrote and had something thoughtful to add. So this is both an encouragement and a thank you to those Nostriches; your contributions matter more than your reach suggests. The people finding you and engaging with your ideas are getting far more value than the metrics reflect. And to everyone making the effort to engage back, as you do, you’re solving the discovery problem one genuine interaction at a time. 🫡 That’s how good networks get built.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Everyone wants to be Gangster until a real Ganster shows up! #GangStr

If y’all haven’t said or wished our boy @Derek Ross a Happy Birthday, you better get to it! Happy bday brother. Nostr wouldn’t be the same without you! View quoted note →

GM Nostr. My morning unfolds in phases. Spiritual time (prayer), physical preparation(workout), mental calibration(reading), then connection with the Nostriches. A protocol that attracts builders and thinkers tends to cultivate the best conversations.

Only a Fed would call out another Fed. Typical behavior. 😉 View quoted note →

Started mapping out Nostr users and their connections. Realized everyone here is either… A fed. A fed pretending not to be a fed. A fed pretending to be a fed pretending not to be a fed. Actually just a fed #FedStr

Your children will be formed by someone. If it’s not primarily you, then by default it’s everyone else. That’s not a delegation you can afford to make unconsciously.

One of the most underappreciated aspects of Nostr is the quality of disagreement that occurs here. Setting aside technical debates like knot versus Core (which themselves demonstrate how substantive discussion can happen), what strikes me most is the absence of personal destruction as a rhetorical strategy. On legacy platforms, disagreement has become synonymous with character assassination. The algorithm rewards outrage, the architecture encourages pile ons, and the incentive structure makes demolishing your opponent more valuable than understanding their position. Every debate becomes a referendum on someone’s worth as a human being rather than an examination of ideas. Nostr offers something different, not because its users are inherently more virtuous, but because the protocol itself removes many of the perverse incentives that corrupt discourse elsewhere. There are no engagement metrics to maximize, no algorithmic amplification of controversy, no central authority to appeal to for the suppression of dissent. You can mute, you can block, but you cannot mobilize a platform against someone. This creates space for intellectual honesty. People can be wrong without being evil. Arguments can be heated without being personal. The goal becomes persuasion or mutual understanding rather than social annihilation. The test of any communication medium is not whether everyone agrees, but whether disagreement can occur without degrading into tribal warfare. By that measure, Nostr is passing a test that centralized social media has catastrophically failed. This alone makes it worth being here

Why do Kettlebell workouts? Because kettlebell training forces your core to stabilize against asymmetric loads and rotational forces in ways that isolated ab work never will. A strong, functional core isn’t built through crunches but through resisting movement while generating power from your hips.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Today’s WOD 4x10 single DL @53lbs 4x8 single arm swing @53lbs 4x8 single arm ballistic rows @53lbs 4x 40 sec suitcase holds @53lbs 3x20 heavy Russian twists @53lbs ( https://video.nostr.build/85c2fe86fe536bfe96abadcac1abb075626d2e2f7244e6bec44a8407982e1aba.mp4Finisher) 10 Min EMOM -12 KB swings -5 KB snatches #FitnessStr #Fitness #workout