Last week, I was stuck in an airport for six hours and ended up talking with a few college kids about Nostr, mostly about diVine. They were shocked when I told them I deleted my Twitter account with 30K+ followers three years ago. They were even more surprised when I said follower counts don’t really matter.
They were very focused on numbers and influence. They’re young, and I don’t think my perspective fully landed, but they did say I seemed pretty zen and surprisingly chill about it all.
I hope we reach a point when more people feel this way.
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I'd love to hear what those kids were saying afterwards. That crazy old man! 😆
Actually "chill and zen" beats "pissed off, and raging".
after joining nostr, i think being crazy is cute
Well, they did all ask me to drive them back home, a three hour trip, and they weren't old enough to rent a car, so i couldn't have been too creazy 😂
I agreed to drive them, but shortly afterwards the airline announced our plane was in finally inbound and we'd be taking off in bout an hour or so. If I drove we would have gotten home at the same time.
I did for a few months. Many people joined Nostr in the beginning because of that promotion. After a while though, I realized that it was no longer worth the effort. I wasn't going to reach new people and I didn't want to grow an audience on Twitter in which I didn't care about.
I enjoyed the compliment because my favorite Overwatch character is Zenyatta 🤓
This is the way!
I am also shocked 😊😳
Your “here’s what I did, and it’s working out” story is powerful, they’ll be thinking about it for a while.
Influence fades. Calm compounds.
That where I’m at
Little interest or participation in platforms
Feels too early to abandon entirely - but I have no interest
You’ll never remember that last fax , the last cd burn, or ever returning that last videotape.
Or the last time we booted Windows XP...
meh. at the rate i was growing, i'd have well over 100K now, but i do not care! nostr is where my allegiance lies.
