On Snort Everytime I visit the Global feed it defaults to content from the wrong relay (paid), forcing me to choose the right relay (non-paid), upon which I have to click Load More. Every time. Unusable

X (formerly Twitter) may be a dysfunctional experience to some, due to aggressive algorithms and indirect censorship, but finding your audience and relevant people to follow comes automatically, thanks to those algorithms. On Fedi, on the other hand, you don't have any algorithms but milleus dedicated to certain cultural spheres, niche or not. There by merely joining an instance you found your "relevant" people, and they have found you. If not, a move to a different instance may do the trick. On Nostr, on the other hand, despite its seemingly superior architecture, there are neither algorithms nor community-like instances to join, find, and be found. It's like a huge pool or seemingly irrelevant content and people. This is where the *no strings attached relay design* may show a major downside.

Perhaps not a popular opinion here but China today has more freedom, more prosperity, more technological progress, and a higher quality of life than whatever can be found in the US. In some of these points we don't need to say "more" as there's nothing left in the US.

One thing I value about Nostr, especially when compared to Fedi, is the theoretical potential of reach. Whereas Fedi isolates posts within instances with existing connections, Nostr has theoretically complete reach. Though I must admit I don't know the particularities of how relays interact in this regard. But bottom line, Fedi has an inherent insular tendency, whereas Nostr seems to be doing the opposite.

It's a rather simple argument, but true nonetheless. Animals live by instinct, devoid of reason, and are therefore ruled by man. Some people want you to believe you are an animal, making you controllable and subduable. These people want to enslave you.

If the Fediverse is like a network of federated villages, some big, many small. And if Twitter is like a megacity with a central, automated, technocratic authority. Then to what can we liken Nostr? The concept of relays seems to defy all human habitat comparisons. It is perhaps like groups of wanderers, interacting and exchanging information through certain paths, never required to stay in a certain place; nomadic but free.

Does the "impressions" thing (bottom right of a post) on Amethyst actually work? I've received more replies than impressions to a post.

All LLM AI (like ChatGPT) created material should be banned from being used for commercial purposes. Reason is, LLM AIs are incapable of producing new and independent information. Instead, they rely on databases with preexisting information and algorithms that aim to produce satisfying outputs as a reaction to user-generated prompts. Meaning, all generated information by LLM AIs fully rely on pre-existing information. That preexisting information may contain copyrighted material. And no generated information by LLM AIs is novel or independent, but reliant on pre-existing information.

Nostr really makes me wonder if it's supposed to be Bitcoin circlejerk, or open for anyone and everyone.

My first post from Satellite. Hello fellow Orbiters.

The world of Nostr still seems strange to me, but I decided to learn more about it. Seems to be worth it.

Nostr seems like a fine idea with mechanics that are inherently better suited for social media than activitypub.

I'm not exactly sure how this works. Do I need any extra steps before my posts appear anywhere at all?

Hello Nostrverse. Came here to see what this is all about