Me neither. Nostr is probably my biggest account so far (and I have no clue why)
Disclaimer: I maybe have tried every social network under the sun in the last decade, excluding recent ones though because #nostr is what I want (anybody remember diaspora or tent.is π
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Thank you for saying friend to me π
When reading your history, I think you started too late π
unless you skipped parts.
I think my first place was MySpace, and back then you had a lot of customisation options (I wrote a lot of HTML and CSS for my myspace page) and zero algorithms, as far as I remember.
Your feed was just a chronological soup if posts from the people you followed (or, "were friends with" as it was called)
Then mark suckalot entered the game and took it over, and it all went straight downhill from there.
Suddenly, "engagement" was the ruler of your feed.
And then, this metric was monetized.
This move didn't only fuck up social media, it killed society as we knew it.
People were starting to rage bait to farm "interest" and money.
Then crypto came along to amplify scam artists 1000x
And we ended up with things like Hawk Tuah coin.
To me, #nostr is the antidote to all of this.
We reclaim chronological feeds.
We reclaim the absence of "sponsored posts"
We measure engagement in a decentralised, ungovernable currency.
This is why I am clinging to this network - and I think it has a chance to grow with everyone who is just burned out with how things are elsewhere.
Anyway this is way too long already and i'm forgetting where I started π
Hope it makes some sense to you
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This all makes total sense to me.
Yes π Remember the MySpace days as well.
Ima just different than many in my generation. Saw the scam of Facebook early & was posting content like: YOU ARE THE PRODUCT years ago then realized it was wasted energy. Many didnβt care.
Same as with what happened at Twitter. When everyone was leaving for Blue Sky & other places:
me: youβre willingly allowing yourself to be transferred into more cyber train cars for more brain washing
All perfectly timed & my most portent messages blocked out ( shadow banned ) so it benefited others. Think political candidates etc. this infuriated me.
Totally! I also thought like this but before nostr I didn't see a real alternative tbh.
It was all just migrating to the next lesser evil.
This is why I'm so thankful for this place. The user has choice once again. And the whole development feels like reliving the early internet days again π₯Ή