Yes. I just mean strictly a social media is something I avoid when describing nostr. Social graph falls more under identity for me since you can have this same social graph system on other identity providers too, for example a federated social media's instance admins trusting admins of other instances to federate. Nostr at least can split this down to an individual level rather than a single authority that individual trusts to trust on their behalf. A lot of users in channels in our space think Nostr is just "Bitcoin Bro Twitter", and some call npubs an account, which isn't exact. I don't blame them. Nostr as a social media reminds me of a hyper-accelerated Twitter. Where Facebook is mostly between a friend circle, Twitter was far more out in the open, Nostr as a social media just expands that IMO. We have a very private space so people who want privacy wouldn't really use Nostr at all, they'd use a centralised social media they can private and lock posts to just people they want... Bluesky provides tons of restrictions on that.

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Yeah, I wouldn't call that privacy, though. It's just the human need to control each other. People love that and most normies think they need or want that. It takes a while to convince them otherwise.