Another thing I notice is that screaming into the void is more fun, when you know it's usually other humans screaming back. When we Oldies got online, it was only humans conversing. My kids generally assume anyone they don't personally know, might be a bot, so they chat with their friends in separate rooms about what they see on the wider Internet. If they want to talk to AI, they just talk straight with AI. They don't talk to an AI pretending to be a human. They find that creepy and pointless. It's a different Internet, if ChatGPT was there, before you were. Because of opinionated relays and paid relays, Nostr can give them the "WhatsApp feeling", while allowing them to exchange the actual material in their conversation, rather than merely referring to it with a hyperlink -- and risking it getting deleted, before the others have a chance to see it.

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