unfortunately it sadly means i can’t recommend nostr to them (not yet, at least). better safe than sorry for now.
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Unless they like rowdy nonsense. 🙃
unfortunately, prob makes sense. What do you think nostr needs to be the kind of place that would be worth recommending to them? Diff apps, diff creators/content, diff filter/discovery mechanisms or just kinda “know it when I see it”?
Community development.
Unless you are speaking specificially about changes to nostr itself as a protocol, you don't need to worry or fight against censorship because it it built in. Reddit is a great community model, i think that nostr can have shades of gray when it comes to community participation which is more fine grained from what Reddit allows.
Walls help bring evolution because communities develop in safety and isolation from external influences - you don't need to look further than your backpyard to understand how niches enable specialization and flourishing.
Being on nostr, all this is opt in. Is a community/relay to strict/lenient for your liking? Go somewhere else. We don't need to be completely mixed in, and socially that's actually a way to really stirr up internal conflict - throw in individuals completely unaligned with the core ideals of a communtity to co-opt and break it apart from the inside.
Give communities the capabilities to build walls around themselves. Censorship isnt the problem, its obligated censorship from individuals who aren't aligned with my values.
- i don't care what you see, i care what i see and i want to curate my feed
- i want to curate a communtiy that isnt centered around hashtags. I want it on nostr because i dont want to be a walled garden, but i want only specific things on my relay/group.
Let relays be some proxy for a definition of a community. The relays you belong to are your public pool - don't shit in it, don't let anyone else shit in it and uphold the same standards to everyone else in that community. Anyone who absolutely needs that functionality can have their own relays to do whatever they want.
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i struggle with this too. ive settled on not recommending, tried for a while. and i dont think its nostr's fault! i fucking love this zany, punk space where i can create my unique experience. i think its more that my friends and family are so not ready for the experience of 'driving the car' when its been on autopilot for so long ( unknown to them perhaps), less worried about the content ( there is so much terrible shit you get exposed to on twitter, fb, insta...not better imo but just my ecperience) but that they just cant handle the responsibility involved. most people dont want that imo...which i dont blame them for..i have lots of spaces in my life i have abdicated some responsibility. it just so happens i nerd out hard on this stuff and like the project and ethics behind nostr so it keeps me going to learn, try stuff, make it better. Itll be here when theyre ready 🙂
people need to feel like they are missing out on an experience, that they need to join or be left behind. think when fb first came out and ur friends were signing up with their . edu email accounts to write on each others walls, or like for me when twitch came out and i had friends that were enjoying watching streamers and i didnt know what they were talking about, so i joined in on a fun live stream for the first time.
i dont think nostr really has that experience yet where it becomes kinda like a blackhole. so far its just emulated existing things like twitter, pinterest, blogs, live streaming. and i have no idea what that will be, whether its something totally new or a unique interoperable combination of things( id wager on the latter).