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One of the things I enjoy most about Nostr is how it's bringing so many of us together IRL.

Social media is not that important.

Nostr won't do that. Its just a tool. Like everything else. It is what you want it to be.

Says person on social media, who thought it'd bring him some benefit to post it on social media.

just yesterday, i was thinking about how feed-based social media doesn’t mirror real-life interactions. it’s more like speed dating - every scroll/ table, a new story, a new person.

The question is rather: Can we stop thinking of Nostr as just a variation of Twitter and go back to the drawing board and make novel things that are awesome because of the underlying protocol?

I dont look for any benefit here. I know better. Looking for humanity or connection on social media is silly.

Nostr both facilitates human interaction in physical space and digitical anonymity in virtual space, and allows everyone to move though and between those states, and in all variations/combinations of them, being as public or private as they wish in each space.

i'm all for that. what do you think is currently limiting x from having a humanized social experience?

The lack of a two-tiered relay structure, allowing for Public/Layer 1 and Private/Layer 2 relays, that are more or less porous and can be transversed. Public is more abstract/digital, but more global and universal and the guarantuer for censorship resistence. Private is more personal/analog, bound more my geography, topic, business, or personal connection.

Yes, it's not organic. And then the devs twist themselves into a pretzel, trying to squeeze something that "feels organic" out of it, and you end up with spaghetti code or gigantic, sprawling apps no one can navigate. You can't remove the complexity of organic human interaction, you can only structure to reflect it from the beginning, or frantically try to hide it, after the fact, and risk math-whizzes turning it into a commodity because it's so easy to game a linear system.

big props for your architecture-first approach; it’s not often you see this kind of radical thinking anymore

🫂 Stay weird.

I was thinking about this at a conference, recently. It was in this gigantic building complex, that you could walk around all day and get totally lost in and have aching feet. When you entered the main building, there was a lot going on, people talking as they walk past, billboards and signs, and gigantic video screens and people handing out flyers. It was a great place to find out what is happening and what the news or the schedule for the day was, but it was a rather uncomfortable superhuman, noisy place. So people would wander off and down the hall into the various rooms, where they could play video games, or talk to artists, or read books in the library, or have a snack, or shop for hats and jewelry, etc. And they would get into conversations with the people there, and often end up spending more time there, than in the big hall. You had to go through the big hall, to get to the smaller, more-secluded areas, and you'd occasionally wander past, on your way from one secluded area to another, but most people didn't want to spend all day in the hall, having people shout and wave and blink at them. They wanted to pull over to the side, and talk amongst themselves, for a while. And they didn't just want to pull over to a corner of the big hall and talk in a secret language, they wanted to be in a _different room_. Seemed apt, somehow.

The fact, twitter needs to produce higher income and is therefore pressured to sell views and attention.

I’m wondering what you and others consider has been peak humanized social media in the past?

Forums and blogging circa 2005.

Yeah I think I agree.

+1 for forums b2b aim/msn messenger