One thing that is glaringly obvious after spending a short period of time off twitter/on Nostr:
The twitter algos are hyperspecialized in inciting and amplifying highly charged emotional interactions.
This becomes more and more evident the longer you spend away from the platform.
The interactions feel much more natural, positive, and communal on Nostr. Good vibes all around.
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That’s why I stopped twitter more than a year ago but only just now starting here.
Great its become clear. 🫂
HUGS 🫂
Moonlight Rose 🥀 China for pretty 😍
The engagement farming algos are built to keep you in a trance.
The human instinct to rubberneck at a car crash.
A very sick method to boost analytics.
The further you distance yourself the worse it appears in all honesty. An amazing cleansing.
I agree, but if you can hijack that Algo feeding to instead promote some sort of positive emotion it produces a different, equally dramatic "high"
You will get less engagement here for sure, but it will be real 🫂
Exactly.
Last year I spent a few months here, then went back to X and I was fighting with strangers within five minutes.
"By using attention as the de facto currency online, we destroyed depth and nuance, as well as our collective attention spans."
Yup. The algorithms are definitely designed to incite emotional responses and are like an addiction in my opinion.
I missed Gigi in my life
X - a waste of life. How dull it is to spend time irritable, rude and belligerent assholes spitting phlegm in all directions. It’s highly uncivilized.
Was never gone, just left the cage.
It’s a great feeling.
#YESTR, NO MORE CAGES..
note how quickly that came to light.
and how terrible it is that an algo is so good at showing us what makes us feel bed.
and if you go back and get sucked in as i occasionally do - what is it about yourself that wants that?
Absolutely. I never really used social media before nostr. It was always shallow interactions until now.
This is the common theme that every intelligent person experiences when they switch to nostr. Welcome to freedom 🫡
Why did you deactivate your Twitter
Often, I see posts that infuriate me. Even when curating my feed tightly. Fortunately, it doesn't happen here. Or less often.
Nostr never stresses me out ever 🤙
This is so true.
🫂🧡
Have you decided to stay permanently then?
#yestr 🤙
I found my anxiety levels dropping
Plus spending less time on socials
Twitter would be multiple times per hour sometimes
Nostr is a lot less addictive
Also try switching between different clients. Each one treats content a bit differently and provides unique UX.
Don't forget about securing your keys! Use browser extensions or something like nsec.app to keep your private key safe.
This will change once the „Bitcoin-only“ vanishes 🤷🏻♂️
Regarding Twitter, I think that was the case before Elon arrived, no?
Who benefits when millions of people have more negative emotions ?
Worth looking into.
npub1q7y6tcjj262rfw28ccd396qwerfk9tyxnln3fw68d6jgyaxrzgrs7muptd has a good description of what is being applied to Twitter/TikTok etc:
"The first clips will create a dopamine loops based on created emotions, it can be whatever, even a disgust. Then the loops will get connected to the physical movement, the swipe. It can be a sound (pornhub, netflix, phone vibration).
Then slowly the loop will move before the swipe, so the expectation of the swipe and the potential emotion will be enough to release the dopamine.
But over time the amount of dopamine decrease and you’ll have to swipe more and more often to squeeze something.
And the algo just makes sure to keep you in doing that based on their retention metrics."
Fewer bots too.
Legacy tech monetizes through ads and does everything it can to glue your eyes to the screen.
THE ADVERTISING MODEL MUST DIE.
Freedom tech will let you monetize your own data. Or give it away. Your preference.
One day you will enter data into nostr and I’ll pay you a few sats for it bc my Grapevine tells me you’re worth it in that context. You’ll maximize the value of the data you enter bc you want to maximize your reputation so you can maximize the sats you stack.
LFG
And they can’t do shit to stop it
Data LFG
And you and
@ODELL inspired many of us to do the same 🙏
Yeah but what if the money part was optional and completely voluntary.
Content is free and open to enjoy and you decide what it's worth to you.
#V4V
It was @gigi that oranged pilled me with his website. I stayed up all night enthralled with his writing. It blew my mind.
I think it's time I revisited his work. 🫡
Thanks
@Gigi
