You can mute whoever you like tho, but that wouldn't stop the initial contact. Maybe that is the issue?
I think Global shouldn't be so prominent, especially not for a new user. It's total rubbish, useless and off-putting (unless you only navigate it with eg welcome wino thing - which a new user won't be doing). Could easily be ticked further away.
Yes. Global is a cesspool of Fediverse content. It's not a good look for brand new Nostriches. It almost needs a warning or to be hidden from first view.
In my experience it's not even that. It's this rapid stream of test, asfasdffasdf, some sort of weird data, a 40000 word essay copied from Wikipedia about nothing. But I haven't looked.
I do have some sympathy for a fediverse/nostr two state system living happily side by side tho lol. They'll be good follows there with some digging. I'm just saying it's possible to not poopoo the whole bridge thing in the process..but I maybe I have more of a stomach for it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ or however you want to see it. It's hard not to take these things with a pinch of salt cos you go to bluesky and they think nostr is all about selling N FTs and Nazis lol. I just wonder and don't want to be in a conga line of kicking down lolol.
Which is why I proposed a client that has a start screen like this from Castle Wolfenstein;)
https://image.nostr.build/aee30de18a555e3aa4ddbd5f0c223a7f18e674b3f94028968df7add76d32004e.jpg
Realistically, just some tick boxes for content filtering. Eg blur NSFW images ✅ probably covers a hell of a lot just by itself added with Global not being your spawn point.
i never would have joined without Global. NOSTR was sold to me as "free speech" platform so the first thing i did was to test if it actually had free speech. i searched for the word "Kike" and got tons of hits ( all of them from Fedi ) so the test was passed, free speech was confirmed and i joined.
there are sites that pretend to be free speech like Gettr but when you try to post the word "Nigger" they give you an error. fake and gay.
in the LONG TERM i would like to see NOSTR burn the bridges and have its own unique identity. but in the short term there aren't enough interesting people on here unless all you care about is Software Engineering and CrVpto CVrr3ncies.
I would disagree, but I like silly bridges and I'm just here for the ride.
The global example you gave, fine. But how often do you actually look at global now? It passed this test you gave it. But does it get used beyond that for you? 🤔
90% of all interesting content in my timeline is still from Fedi.
and half of my own posts is just going to GAB and reposting memes from there.
if more people diligently stole content from other networks and posted it on here it could get this platform started.
it would be like a manual bridge implemented with plagiarism instead of code.
Not to sound critical, but you only follow 43 npubs. There is an entire world of Nostriches out there.
Sorry but i don't speak to retards that use Cast Iron Skillets.
adoption of tech follows s curves, most people are not aware of mastodont or nostr or why
and yes you muted me, weak
nobody owes you their time. you have to earn it.
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