I don't think the true value of Nostr is well understood. Privacy and anti-censorship is <10% of why I think Nostr is cool. The other 90% is that this is the one place in social media that because there is no algorithmic distortion, I can get pure signal on who cares about what I write. And that means two very important things 1. The first is that Nostr encourages the authenticity and multi-dimensionality of the human spirit It has restored my faith that you can be well known within an ecosystem for a speciality (Bitcoin and energy in my case), but that ecosystem is still interested in other things you say - sometimes more interested in the other things you say than your speciality The result is, I am encouraged to express all of who I am, not just the part that I happened to have become better known for at a point in time. That is inherently a more full, and enriching way to live. 2. The second is that Nostr makes you better at serving others I get genuine signal from a community about what people want to write about. That gives me a sense of what a whole community care about, which helps shape what I talk about at conferences, on podcasts and even in dinner conversations. The result is I can hopefully serve people better by being more relevant and interesting when I speak to others, whether in private conversation or at a conference. So Nostr, and only Nostr, helps you live in a more expansive and fully expressed way and it helps you serve others by being more attuned to the sorts of things people care about. Those are not 2 small things. Those are not theoretical or philosophical benefits, or benefits that are relevant to only a small subset of people who care about a particular niche issue. These are significant benefits that are available to any human who want their social media channels operating in the background to support rather than constrain their exploration of who they are, and how the relate what they care about to others in the most useful, clear and relevant way. And that is a much much larger group of people. Thank you for those who built this technology, and who continue to make it better.

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Nicely put. I've been pondering this over the last week and the closest I came was "nostr created an environment where giving is..." and then I got stuck: easy? encouraged? rewarded? not quite. I think the answer is "giving is easily received". πŸ™
Another plus aspect for Nostr for me is that because there's no given algorithmic structure, you also don't have to show up regularly for your posts to be distributed widely. You can take a break and you won't be punished for it. Because who should tell you how often you have to 'work' on what? That sounds like the old 9-5 employment structure most of us wanted to break free from. So even in that aspect, Nostr breathes freedom on a different level than 'just' censorship resistance and decentralization.
I really like the concept of people being able to easily tip people for the content that they want valuable. I also really like how Twitter's "we need monthly payments due to bots" is disproven with a cheap payment to an established relay server. A $1 payment is nothing for one account, but for 10,000 bots that becomes $10K. All without forcing you to turn over personal information, which saves you again even more. It's really great and the only issue I see with #nostr is that it's a very crypto-heavy... which is all great, but if you're not interested in crypto then I don't imagine your feed will interest you unless there's other content.
Yeah.. it's the one social media that isn't trying to gameplay for your attention, and it seems to have actual human contributions. It really helps to keep a healthier relationship with social media.
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