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building the nostr algorithm
do you ever think back in horror to the weak passwords you once used in the earlier days of the internet?
if you're still eating steak and living in a house, then you're nowhere near bullish enough
bullish on pod builders this cycle
the future may get bleak, but we can still build our own pods and grow our own bugs
this November, vote for better money
it seems to me like The Ordinal Society is here whether we like it or not. so why build a reputation in a digital walled garden that can be taken away from you, when you could be tending your own garden?
anyone here have thoughts on The Ordinal Society? #bookstr
I've been thinking about what a producer/consumer metric would look like. probably something like a normal distribution with outliers on the producer side seen as influencers and viewed with caution, and the other extreme would be lurkers who don't create any events and are sent to the nostr graveyard
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traditional radio would be an example of the minimal end of the freedom scale, with ham radio in the middle, and pirate radio with maximal freedom
I would argue that there is a third dimension of social media to consider here. along with synchronicity and consumptivity, imagine a third dimension on the z-axis which is a freedom index
the software itself that facilitates social media has been skewed heavily toward the consumtion of software. nostr opens the door for anyone to be a producer of software
nostr can lead the way to a better balance between production and consumption of social media
the media itself does encourage a particular distribution between consumption and production. old media, like broadcast TV, is an example extreme example of the consumer heavy model
the next dimension in this map of social media is a continuum between content production and consumption. this is not a property of the social media itself, but in the way a user is using it at a given time
I got the last one mixed up! a phone call may appear at first glance to be a fully synchronous (simultaneous) communication, but in reality people usually take turns. you can always interrupt, but it would take special skills to be able to listen and talk at the same time
a phone call may seem to be fully asynchronous, but that is only true if you can talk and listen at the same time. in reality, most people take turns speaking
these producer/consumer and synchronous/asynchronous dimensions of social media exist on a spectrum. for example, a microblog is more synchronous than a regular blog which is more synchronous than a high production value video channel
...would be doomscrolling tiktok