I came here because I want to interact, make frens, and share what I like and what I'm building.
So many people treat their social media as their job, turn it off and walk away after they get their leads. They don't care about real connections, they care about an audience, affirmations, and line go up. They plan, they learn the *game*, they watch the analytics, they watch YOU, as a capitalist I hazard to use the word exploit, but something close to it. I think this is a function of twitter and other curated/paid advertising platforms, that incentivizes this behavior.
idk, just some thoughts that keep me dreaming of a better future
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Happy to have met you on here. 👍 Welcome to the party!
Was just having a similar conversation recently. All the people I followed on Instagram (majority were pattern designers for knit or crochet things) would schedule out their posts for a month or more according to the algorithm at the time and only interact with the first couple of responses or the responses of other designers. I don't miss it.
Yeah and the unfortunate part is that's the majority of the content, it really makes you feel like a consumer. I don't miss it either!
Yes! So glad there are other people fed up with it, just wish there were more.
Feel you but dont forget that social media, nostr or otherwise, will never approximate anything close to real connections and real friends. Those things require real world, not digital, interactions.
Not saying there isnt a role for digital interaction but theres truth to the "touch grass" idiom.
And bruh setup your lightning address so I can hit you with some generational wealth!
Well I only joined for #coffeechain. So ☕☕☕☕☕☕
Ad-driven "Infuencer" social media:
Reach > Quality
Zap driven nostr:
Reach < Quality
In the long time preference yes. I really dream of the period where creators produce enough value in their content they can sustain themselves. Although I don't know that I believe that the idea that content itself is sustaining, I believe it still should have a business component to it, but free markets should prove me right or wrong.
I think in the short term, if we stick on the path were on, ad monetization is nearly impossible on the platforms themselves, so it's a good thing long term, loss aversion in the short term for on-boarding. In many ways ads become a plague imo. Ads are necessary, and I do think people want to be advertised too, but it goes too far every time. OTA, cable, streaming platforms, etc.
Anyway I'm excited for that future and hope we as builders can stay focused on that because the legacy systems don't want that.
In almost every case sponsorship of a podcast in the bitcoin space is indication of a poor quality product that is losing market share. Maybe a few bad eggs stink up the entire lot, but its becoming a pattern. The problem with B2C direct advertising is its rarely done to inform, but to brainwash. When a "creator" takes on a sponsor, 98% of the time, they are selling the social capital they built with their audience to the purpose of brainwashing through subconcious manipulation to the benefit of a third party of ambiguous character. As a business trying to navigate this "sales and marketing" space, its looking a whole lot more like S&M than lead generation and business development (yea I knowz loaded terms) and I have yet to be convinced its effective if not immoral at its foundation.
