There doesn't seem to be a response to the bots this time around, as compared to eg "ReplyGuy". It's definitely less in your face and disruptive than ReplyGuy but it's basically left as Not A Problem, but it's definitely a problem lol and more insidious. The devs fell in love with the agents. But this was a fantasy (Adam Curtis voice...).
No one has bothered to alter the 'nostr meta' (I can't be bothered explaining it again, not worth explaining, it should be obvious by now,... See Primal if clearest example).
Growth is still 'convince more users from bitcointwitter to join'. Those who wanted to join have joined already. And the bitfluencers actually put interesting people off anyway. (Related to second point).
It's been quite obvious, and you'd think free marketeers would get it. Guess what the marketed didn't want or need? Bitcointwitter2. Yet here we are :)
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Damn, Im honestly at a loss for words. yeah... I've got nothing else to add XD
I also think the change from Nothing Ever Happens to Something Happening has got a lot of people on / back on / more on Twitter. Seems to be the case with people I know and seems to make sense, it's still the breaking news platform (despite all the ai slop).
This isn't really a criticism, unlike my previous post. I don't think nostr can or perhaps even should try to compete with that (I really don't know).
That's just the way it is.
I can't believe you tagged me into my pet peevelolol
"It's coming from inside the house." Many nostr devs aren't going to stop the botslop when they are the ones botslopping and gooning for the AI fantasy. No market forces, no mission, just larp. Nostr will remain an obscure playground for in-clique developers or be captured and commandeered by shitcoinery unless it gets a stronger sense of purpose.
I personally enjoy it here and love many of the people and the tech, but I've seen a lot of promising things die on the vine and I hope that doesn't happen again. The world could actually use what nostr could actually be.
I tried to engage with with devs on the bot problem realistically some months ago and got nothing but cold shoulders. I understood why when they all started creaming about clawd and bot swarming their own users.
Se la vie, I guess.
