Oddbean

I think you’re doing good. Just share what’s on your mind :) If I force myself to share things the quality lacks… so I stop forcing myself and maybe post less… I often read your stuff but don’t feel like agreeing or I don’t feel like disagreeing. I just see your opinion as it is, and I value your opinions. Maybe, very rarely, I use it as an inspiration to share something, like yesterday, where I wanted to talk about that insults or anger make the quality of ones argument worse. Because someone insulted you because of your opinion. I don’t participate in nostr tech stuff, it’s just not a big passion to analyze what to build next. I often discuss this with my partner. Tell him my ideas when we talk about lumina. And I don’t want to build an opinion on how men or women have to behave, it’s not so important to me. I’m more interested in communication itself. But I read it and pick what’s valuable for me. And yes, the nature stuff is beautiful to look at. I think it really inspires people to spend more time in nature, and so, you can make a great influence. I think it’s good when nostr is full of nature related stuff! I think I don’t miss many of your notes. You show up on my filtered relay list, „my global feed“. People have their values and decide what they want to react to. It’s important to me to care for our online friendship aswell, so I’m happy for every little conversation about whatever with you. :) But yeah, it costs time and energy to share things, especially unpopular things. No feedback may be also a feedback? Here you have my feedback. But often that doesn’t matter if you truly stand behind something.

Yes, no feedback is also feedback. Precisely. I am saying that I am not certain that readers understand that merely lurking discourages people from writing about what they are reading because it feels like talking to ourselves. From the responses I've gotten from my complaints, people actually are reading the other stuff, but in secret. Perhaps Nostr being a public ledger discourages interaction on anything that is uncommon or controversial.

Maybe you attract the people that want to say something about it and that’s a start. The lack of users make it more difficult. No feedback can really be unmotivating. I like to talk about astrology but I realized it doesn’t seem to interest most people here. But I’m always glad when I find someone that listens or is interested. Maybe nostr is not the right place for it. For me, reaching just one person with it would be enough. But writing about it is time consuming. It’s also time consuming to react on others thoughts. On the one hand, it’s often niche, and you wish for a walled garden, or a curating mechanism. On the other hand you want to reach more people and make them think about something they normally don’t think about.

Yes. I guess that's why I've resisted only posting that stuff "in private". I keep thinking, perhaps there's one. more. person. I feel a bit like Abraham, pleading with the Lord to spare Sodom, if he can find even 10 righteous people in the whole town. Shall I keep publishing about economics on Nostr, if there are only 10 people interested in discussing the eurodollar's impact on the federal funds rate? 😂

Furthermore, I think writing about something more obscure or particular is "proof of human", as it's irrational behavior driven by the desire of the author. And that leads to increased trolling because it is safe to assume that a real person wrote it and feels strongly about it. It carries a "scent of human". If you add the "perfume of female" to it, hold onto your hardhats. 😂

Keep posting! People will find you as more understand web3 In still very much learning and I’m thankful when people post and interact with my content. Pioneers can be lonely along the way but with persistence community is built with people you really want in your community ☀️🦋

"But writing about it is time consuming." This, right here. Anything that requires research, planning, or deep knowledge, is an "unnattractive post" because the reward for that effort is too low. There are other topics or styles of post that require much less effort and receive more reward. This is what I meant about feeling like I'm being nudged: write about this, not about that. So we all subconsciously drift toward where there is the most reward for the least effort... ("Reward", not just in zaps, but it discussion with humans.)

Humans attention is worthy and how you pack it is important to reach it. But also, one can only acknowledge the effort you put into something, filtered through their values. It’s disappointing yes. Deep thoughts are valuable, but also it’s sometimes valuable for us to enjoy life and don’t always think. To just stop and smell the flowers. But yeah you’re right, it seems like the more work you put in the less rewards you get. The best you can do is sell your words as good as possible, if you want to reach many people. Don’t give up!

I already had this thought in my head. I put it in writing to share it with other people. I could more-easily write about something more mundane. Writing about novel things is difficult; it is more effort and risk and requires much more talent, and opens you up to vitriol. Perhaps the more unusual things are going to end up under subscription, for the small niche they serve, and the main feed will remain as it is, forever, and I should simply adapt. Perhaps I am simply mourning this inevitable ending, as I had hoped the Nostr Story would end differently.

Keep going. You are a person with something to say. That makes you a minority of sorts. Not everyone likes your kind. Their remedy is to unfollow, mute, leave the protocol if they can’t take it. You are doing God’s work IMO, and I don’t even agree with you half the time!

It's odd how controversial we are and how everyone completely melts down around us, when we are so... What exactly are we? 🤔 Prim. Yes, we are prim and proper. This is the most dangerous tone to write in, I think.

I have a Psychic mediumship portal on #dscvr if you’d like to join. Starting community is a challenge, new things are. One by one we build communities we want to be a part of and see where it goes 🤔😃☀️🦋 https://dscvr.one/p/psychic-mediumship