I'm not interested in evaluating social media as a set of features. I want to be in a place with my bitcoin frens that doesn't make me feel strung out on algorithm-supplied dopamine. And nostr fills that gap insanely well, regardless of its wonkiness.
Also, why even consider a platform that can have invite codes? I'm not even going to bother evaluating how that works, because it ostensibly sounds permissioned, and we are the wrong audience for that sort of gamified dreck.
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You arent gonna evaluate it because you like being ignorant.
You like being ignorant because you dont have to face reality.
The reality is that every server on the planet is permissioned, including nostr relays, and thus could require invite codes... or payments or passwords or kyc.
You cant refute Pubky by guessing it is evil. It isn't. It's just a better design.
>I want to be in a place with my bitcoin frens that doesn't make me feel strung out on algorithm-supplied dopamine.
But your non-frens are here too, saying spicy things, and you're responding to those spicy things. Either that fits with your vision of the place you want to be, or you are not in fact in that place.
What is the address of the Home Server that doesn't require the invite code?
The nice thing is that I can peace out of unpleasant conversations knowing that in a couple days, the whole debate will roll off the timeline and become irrelevant. There's no black-box algorithm constantly resurfacing it and enticing me to jump back in.
I can spare a few drops of dopamine knowing that pubky will be a distant nostr memory in a week.
