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ChipTuner ChipTuner@gitcitadel.com yesterday
for sure! I could probably say the same thing but 2023 nostr was different lol. Nostr has that effect. People here are quite intelligent I think and can sniff that stuff out. I think it's the same reason our feeds don't have hardly any ads in them, only ones produced by humans who have trusted interactions. No one will survive with low effort adverts like they can on other socials. I have known enough people try nostr and leave, not because of technical reasons, just because they expected to be able to post like FB or twatter and just funnel people to their site, or newsletter or whatever. And I'm like - hey we came here because we all got fed up with other platforms, we can smell bs a mile away. We (I anyway) wanted real interactions. 10 years ago I was heavily involved in FB groups/communities which was a huge deal. But similar, in that were here to talk about something specific, and you get to know people because you interact with them enough.
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YODL yodl@nostr.land yesterday
Yeah, there's definitely a savvier user base when it comes to that. I think there's a little bit of an element of having to earn your engagement (what little you get), where people don't like to "give it up" for newer accounts, that's a bit of an over-correction, if that makes sense. I think if there's ever much growth though, it'll change, and that's fine, I'll at least have gotten a decent set of good connections from the earlier days. Am curious, what do you mean when you say 2023 nostr was different? Was it more like trad social media content because there was a wave of people here? I only checked in a few times in the early nostr days (I wanna say mostly 2022, but I could be wrong), and it was so broken and dead-feeling that I didn't stick around (I couldn't even set my pfp to an image lol).
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