Have you used any social media that's not owned by big tech before you used nostr? Can you feel the difference?
Login to reply
Replies (37)
Feels a bit like freedom and abundance
Definitely feel the difference
emails? 🤔
never used something else besides #NOSTR 👀
Closest media would be Peertube for me. Federated, but no community amongst users like Nostr. And of course, no tip/paying value for value feature built in. Would be great to have a paid service with videos able to be embedded like Twitter X so can cross platform publish on blogs
The only one that I can think of is UseNet from the late 80's and early 90's. Everything else, including MySpace, was what I could consider corporate social media.
I can feel the walls of the silos coming down, and that's a really good feeling.
Was mostly a lurker on centralized SM.
Became a contributor on Nostr.
Never liked social media before nostr.
Its strange.
Wow man, yeah and Slashdot forums
Slashdot threads was a form of social media. Soothing green light. 😀
Craigslist as well. Both USED to feel free and benevolent. They are more regulated and controlled now, sadly.
Did any exist before that were widespread?
Nostr is the reason I‘m trying social media actively for the first time.
I used them before they became big tech, if that counts.
The main difference to me is options and flexibility. In terms of content, not so much.
Nostr is Xanga uncensored
Do forums count? I mean IRC I guess but I was not very big on it.
nostr reminds me of The Hive (the drug forum) in its openness and gfy vibes
Mirc late in the 90s and also used diaspora some years later but that died fast
Zero adds! 🥳
The golden days
I used mIRC at first but then I became more of a bitchX user. I still want a bitchX Nostr client 🥹
Lol way to early for me :) Never got into blogs. The whole "create and account on your website to comment" thing was not exciting to me. Discourse kind of changed that though I guess later on. RSS though. Still my favorite way to receive information
asl pls
Been on #Mastodon for several years. It's pretty awesome. Great conversations usually, high signal. Actually higher signal than nostr, lots of spam here.
I feel it. I feel the spirit moving. Preach brother.
I feel it.
Actually … no .
(a) Yes: Ello and Minds (Yes, I used to love empty places).(b) Sure.
Ahh, the trout slaps..
You ser/madam are showing your age
😃
usenet?
oh
and Dread.
the difference is real
Yes, it’s hard to describe how much better I experience nostr compared to Big Brother
Yes, the difference is very noticeable. Hopefully equivalent solutions for video sharing such as flare.pub or zap.stream can scale and replace YouTube.
Oh yeah, Diaspora was pretty good. I recall I discovered interesting stuff there.
Yeah i really liked it and also its clean ui, sadly it lasted a flash 🤷🏼♂️ anyway I think it has been a good experiment but I’m super happy we have nostr today 🙏🏼🦩