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.

In this case, John is the surrogate algorithm. And he'll tucker himself out soon enough.