I want to like Nostr. And from a technical perspective I find it fascinating. Especially how its design makes institutional insertion much more difficult.
From a user perspective, less so. It feels like attending a dinner party where everybody else knows each other, talking about random things, and I’m just observing.
I get the complaint that X generates addictive behaviors. But there’s a middle ground between mostly viral posts and mostly random posts.
I wonder whether “relevant posts” is just something that decentralized platforms have a hard time doing.
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"from a technical perspective I find it fascinating"
I use it only because of its technical properties. In essence, "Nostr" just means to me using public key cryptography to authenticate online, which I think is the correct way to "be" on the internet given the current state of technology.
I had to add some public key infrastructure for replacing lost or stolen keys on top of the base Nostr protocol for it to become genuinely usable. With that in place, I now have a technologically acceptable way of maintaining an online presence. So I'm going to use that.
New to the platform but so far I agree.