Today is my one year anniversary on Nostr 🎂. I’ve been thinking a lot
about my own social media and Nostr usage lately, in large part because
@Linda has been leading us through product workshops at
@nos .
In
the past year I think we've found solutions to most of the technical
problems I was most concerned about when we pivoted our company from
Secure Scuttlebutt to Nostr. These problems being spam, abuse, and
scaling. I think relays are doing a good job mitigating spam, the
decentralized moderation system we've built at Nos seems very promising
for dealing with abuse, and some innovation has been done to support
scaling (like the outbox/gossip replication model, and various set
replication schemes).
On the culture side, I'm just going to say
it - I don't like Nostr's culture. There are loads of lovely people on
here, that's not the problem. I think there are two factors going on for
me:
- Nos and much of Nostr is designed to work like Twitter. I personally don't like Twitter or the global-town-square feeling.
- I feel like no matter who I follow my feed is full of Bitcoin content. Bitcoin is cool, but I'm tired of hearing about it.
I'm
going to take another shot at finding folks on Nostr who don't talk
about Bitcoin. So far I have settled for people who talk about things
I'm interested in *and* Bitcoin but that's not working. This means today
I'm unfollowing a lot of people I really like. If you are one of them,
don't take it personally. I'm looking forward to 2024 being the year I
find "my people" on Nostr.
And you know what, if this resonates
with you maybe we can make it easier to find one another. I added
#nocoin to my Nostr bio, if you want to do the same I will be searching
for other profiles that use this hashtag and give them a follow. They
are easy to see using the Nostr.band search engine:
https://nostr.band/?q=nocoin+++kind%3A0