true. i am shielded a lot from the direct contact with the community and it's been fascinating just how many people are on thet edge that i'm just a tippy-toe across that boundary outside the in-crowd. i aimed towards this kind of circumstance, even when i spent 2 years working for a shitcoin-based startup, who was dabbling in nostr much to my fortune, i didn't have to deal directly, except for contract negotiation interviews such as with the founders of arweave and internet computer protocol. i wish i could do something more to help you get some more comfortable distance from them, but as you know, persuading big money to pay attention to nostr is extremelly difficult, so you are stuck being between the customers (who are slow to arrive due to the silly ideas in the main powers that be marketing and funding nostr dev) and those silly people with their self-contradictory positions.

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yah, I mean it's ok for me because I chose this and am aware I am consuming slop on the daily.. I should tone it down and do pick and choose when, to refresh myself. However, I can see how disturbing it would be for anyone who is into bitcoin in any capacity. The algos of today once they see you have any inkling of interest in bitcoin will bombard you with FUD about it everywhere you go.. Every friend you have as well who is not a bitcoiner will also bother you with their unsolicited opinions from their own feeds. No different than the political polarization type stuff it muddles your perspective and most importantly causes you to think about it more than you should.. So that's weird compared to when bitcoin was not in the mainstream *at all*. So yah, I sense some exhaustion here everywhere even in the OGs.. No one is immune to repetition. Anyway, 'this is fine...' 😅