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Toad jesus@nostr.com 1 week ago
Very good post. I feel the same. A lot of content is very valuable and deep, but it's mostly about the same topics. And a lot of people share memes and paintings/photos.... I'm just not interested in images of nature here or in art, I can go to debianart or whatever if I really cared but I don't need it here. I would love it if nostr were an alternative to reddit and not an alternative to twitter. I follow Gigi for instance (Bitcoiner), but he posts so many uninteresting things (amongst very interesting things), that it's annoying 80% of the time and very nice 5% of the time maybe. I don't want to miss those 5% but I have to accept the other 95% of his posts here (not to bash, it's just not for me).
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U-P-G-R-A-Y-E-D-D 1 week ago
Yeah, it's been really buggy the last couple of days. Particularly the onboarding. It's still in beta and there's been several breaking changes. They're pushing new features and code every day. It's not a scam - there's not even any monetization. Why would you even say that? It's the most legit, highest-potential, decentralized web app technology stack that's ever been deployed. If you can't tolerate bugs in beta software, I'd recommend waiting for it to become mainstream before trying it. Perhaps X or Instagram would be more suitable for your disposition? BTW, Bitcoin was buggy in it's early days too. The normie trend-following bandwagoners aren't even aware of that. Only the real OGs. Not even sure why I'm trying to convince you. Honestly, I'd prefer that all the people that respond in the manner that you did stay here on Nostr, safely quarantined away from the real cypherpunks and free-thinkers.
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Toad jesus@nostr.com 1 week ago
sry but i don't even know what ur advertising here. no context, just "check here" and a website that doesnt work and from there only insults. is that a reddit alternative? or why did you want to promote it?
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U-P-G-R-A-Y-E-D-D 1 week ago
I took umbrage at your "Scam?" comment. Perhaps it was an earnest question. I'm promoting it because I want decentralized apps to beat big tech and I'm now convinced that the Nostr protocol can't compete, but the Pubky protocol can. franky.pubky.app is an alternate test homeserver that is currently working. The primary Synonym homeserver pubky.app might not be working properly at the moment.
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Try building something on it. 

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U-P-G-R-A-Y-E-D-D 1 week ago
You can build a Reddit alternative on it (somebody will it this year), but the current flagship app is a microblog (like X, Nostr, etc.)
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