I was listening to a radio show, yesterday, while driving my daughter to work, and it was all about how social media usage is declining. I asked her about it, and she said, "Yeah, nobody does that social media stuff anymore. That's for our moms." But you still use the Internet. 🤔 "Yeah, to read articles and watch informative podcasts and listen to music and shop and stuff. Real stuff." Oh, that's okay, then. Nostr is best at the real stuff™. "Yeah. I use your book thing, Mom. Showed it to my school friends. Pretty cool." I'm cool.

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Troy 6 days ago
"Cool mom" status, and no drunken parties to clean up after! 🥳
Not sure she represents the majority 😏 but it’s a great sign . Line removed insta , admitting it was preventing her to do stuff . All great 👍
Another thing I notice is that screaming into the void is more fun, when you know it's usually other humans screaming back. When we Oldies got online, it was only humans conversing. My kids generally assume anyone they don't personally know, might be a bot, so they chat with their friends in separate rooms about what they see on the wider Internet. If they want to talk to AI, they just talk straight with AI. They don't talk to an AI pretending to be a human. They find that creepy and pointless. It's a different Internet, if ChatGPT was there, before you were. Because of opinionated relays and paid relays, Nostr can give them the "WhatsApp feeling", while allowing them to exchange the actual material in their conversation, rather than merely referring to it with a hyperlink -- and risking it getting deleted, before the others have a chance to see it.
If this approach to social media becomes mainstream, I’m curious how Meta will respond, since they live on selling advertising. If this trend continues, soon there may be only a few millennials and older users left to see and click on those ads. Meta will either have to change its business model or launch a new community-based platform and market it differently, which I don’t see very realistic. If young people get used to chats and rooms without ads, why would they switch to a Meta platform where they themselves become the product... It also seems that small communities are the new thing, and there are already marketing agencies specializing on penetrating them. View quoted note →
Unfortunately the chat they use if often WhatsApp so meta can scrape their data and benefit still. The marketing will need to change but the market is still captured by Meta. I've had some very frustrating conversations with some youngins about how they're against Bitcoin and AI for green reasons but then they exclusively use meta products thinking they're avoiding AI 🙄
"book thing" is the ultimate signal that we're moving from performance back to utility. it is a win when the protocol becomes invisible enough to be called a tool instead of a trap.
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FREEDOM 5 days ago
The next generation isn’t anti-internet. They’re anti-bullshit. Nostr just happens to pass the vibe check.