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↩ replying to maya
I'm not a fan of sats actually. I believe that posting on Nostr shouldn't be transactional. It makes me sad that many Nostr users don't believe deeper interactions are possible. What I like about Nostr is that it's easy to make an account, but the user still owns their own keys. That means that anyone can join, and third parties can't prevent two people from finding eachother and talking with eachother if they really want to.
↩ replying to Galaxie 5000
Because casual two-way communication is only thing that Nostr is better at than the alternative options. If you are interested in high effort monologues then ActivityPub is already perfect. There's no need for the people consuming content to make a real account. They could browse the Fediverse and when a creator posts something the person likes, they can visit the creator's profile, copy and paste the address of their crypto wallet, and send whatever they want. Shoot, if the other person is already putting in the effort to create good info, tools, and entertainment then they could drop the microblogging protocol entirely. They could just start a blog and you can find their posts using a search engine/web crawler. Obviously people are free to use worse tools and create a worse experience for themselves and the people they associate with. The biggest reason I'm talking about this topic at all is because I figured people would want to dispute the conclusion I've come to, and because if so, I'm interested in talking with them.
The porn bots are intel agencies pushing people away from the platform. They have few other attack vectors, so this is low hanging fruit. No one is subjecting themselves to that porn unless they are being paid to do so. If you're going to leave the platform because of a few porn bots, you're probably better off on Facebook anyway.
Luxas's avatar Luxas
Seeing a lot of discourse around Nostr dying and people leaving. Nostr could literally have 100 active people and I’d still prefer it over any current social media platform. Their loss.
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True! To a certain extent, we're seeing the same discourse around Bitcoin's principles and future in El Salvador, and some international Bitcoiners leaving. They'll most probably go on jumping from one country to another for many years, the same way the guys leaving Nostr will continue going back to the centralized matrix (their "mother", etymologically). The builders stay in the building trenches , no matter what are the current hypes, governments & Bitcoin's equivalent "value" in fiat delusion.