There is also a certain air of superiority on nostr, it's 'algo-free'. But what has filled the void of an algo isn't great either, sure it may be algo-free but it's certainly not free of the social media dynamics of parasocial behaviours and all the other inevitable stuff. I'm not saying this stuff can be avoided (it perhaps can in a Reddit /forum/topic client where following npubs-as-personalities is not/less of a thing).
But yeah there seems to be not much interest in refreshing the trending/discovery tools. The assumption is still people want to find bitcointwitter personalities lol. (Probably sadly true).
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It's a vicious cycle. Person not interested in BitcoinTwitter opens Nostr app, sees nothing but BitcoinTwitter, keeps seeing nothing but BitcoinTwitter, closes Nostr app. 😭
It's such an obvious problem (The Most Common Complaint) I have to wonder why clients haven't tried something different at onboarding? Probably because growth/retention is the main thing, and bitcointwitter people actually stay (because they have found bitcointwitter2 lol).
The radio and permaculture communities are hopeful and should be amplified at onboarding (imo). Perhaps there is an idea that they are too niche, and the mythological normies from TikTok must be appealed to (they haven't even heard of Nostr and they're not coming any time soon lol). Meanwhile supposedly 'niche' Meshtastic content on YouTube can get millions of views.
Permaculture and radio content is sort of venn diagram a bitcoin community thing (preppery type stuff). And the hope is the Venn diagrams of content and communities spreads further out. Whilst also battling against the bitcointwitter sloganeering putting lots of people off.
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tbf, this was my first impressioned when I opened my first account on Apr of this year then left for 2 months. Lol
It used to be even worse. Hard to imagine that it was even worse. 😅
More and more of us are just refusing to give up and we just keep posting our stuff and whatever. At some point, we might reach critical mass.
