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Pledditor 5 months ago
I deactivated my X account yesterday (partially) because I needed a mental health break But the main reason, was because bull market twitter is so fucking gay I spent 10 minutes scrolling yesterday. I kid you not, every single post was either a bunch posers gooning out in all-caps over the price going up 4%, or it was a circlejerk of scammers spamming "Paper Bitcoin Summer" over and over and over There's no signal over there anymore. Yesterday was the moment I realized X was no longer bringing me any value to my life, so I just deleted it Maybe I will come back to X in the bear, when all of these carnival barkers get wiped out. But until then, @Pledditor is officially on a hiatus.

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Take care of your mental health. However, just a couple of sats of advice: Being relentlessly negative (even when you are correct) takes a big toll. I think you need to balance calling out shenanigans and also spreading some positivity.
sad not to see your posts daily, I was and am a fan. I hope you return and in the meantime, I do hope your mental health improves. Stay strong man! Now, can I please zap you?
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QW QW@npub.bar 5 months ago
You were pretty much the I only reason I would look at X from time to time. Periodical Pledditor check up. 🤣
Have you considered getting a NIP-05, from for example nostrplebs.com to make it easier for people to find you?
Welcome man. If your experience is anything like mine you'll gradually notice a shift in your baseline mental state. Away from rage bate and current-thing-ism towards something more genuine and positive.
Youre going to see a lot of price talk here too. Be mindful who you follow. Know that you can mute.
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Lostdog 5 months ago
Congrats 🎉 I've not regretted doing the same last year
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Filipe Martinho 5 months ago
That's nice now please set up some zaps so I can zap you 😄
It fucking sucks..I'm still on it but mainly for political and geo events. I don't think I see any signal about Bitcoin anymore. It's been like this for 2 years. All the cool people moved to Nostr
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Abubakar 5 months ago
Your Algo determines what you see by what you engage in so you probably engaged with Crypto bots
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Rigly 5 months ago
You gotta set up a wallet so we can zap ⚡️
Sometimes Bitcoin Twitter is hard to watch. We see Bitcoin as something principled and pure, then people show up and cheapen it.
Delete X permanently or stop virtue signalling for engagement on nostr, sounds orchestrated and conceited. @ODELL walked the talk like a fucking boss in this regard.
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uTz 5 months ago
great to have you here. I love your takes 🧡
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jimbocoin 🃏 5 months ago
I think Twitter may have been a better place for you though. Not a lot of market for rage bait on Nostr.
oh cmon, xitter might be gay but nostr is gayest echo chamber... come back and mute/block ppl who post about price
Twitter has always been a good place to fight against evil or retarded shitcoiners and nocoiners. Problem is that before it always seemed like the majority of bitcoiners were on the same page. Now the immorality is within. Feels like a losing fight for me. The exception is the Knots v Core situation. With that, the only audience is node runners. I liked what you were doing, but I knew it was going to get too much. I think I said so in a comment.
X is now all about engagement farming at this point. The rewards push for that type of behavior.
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Kurtis 5 months ago
I appreciate this. We need more good Bitcoiners to make a hard cut to NOSTR like this
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frenchHODL 5 months ago
Yo, have you tried being a little less negative? Being negative 100% of the time might have an impact on your mental health