Sure, but it’s axiomatic to networks that they have to start with a small, cohesive group. Calling it an “echo chamber” or avoiding it for that fear is to misunderstand the stage of the network, imo. A larger and larger group around one idea, is *exactly* how you finally get groups that become large enough to have secondary interests and “side groups” begin to naturally develop.
In other words, I think we SHOULD be getting as many people as we possibly can who are interested in #Bitcoin, #nostr and censorship resistant social and internet protocols, because that’s exactly how we will get a network large enough to begin fostering the beginnings of thousands of other topics, hobbies, and interests.
Talking about the stuff we should or shouldn’t talk about is just funny to me
What’s really happening throughout all that is a bunch of notes and other stuff, so idk, maybe it does work after all?
Tick tote next note 🤭
How were the notes & other stuff transmitted?
People who yell “echo chamber” usually are just deriding the idea of community. The people I’ve met and interacted with because of bitcoin and nostr are probably the most diverse people I’ve even known, spanning across multiple demographics of every sort, and are some of the most intelligent critical thinkers I’ve ever encountered. Yet we find community around certain topics and values. That is not an echo chamber. It is a community.
I would agree to this point ☝️
If they are yelling it’s emotional. The idea of an echo chamber within community is very real. I’ve been exposed to many of them and though they are indeed community they commonly end up with the lot of agreement over the same ideas. Not a bad thing but certainly off putting to those coming in with contrary points of view. All religion tends to end up in such a place. Small discrepancies of view over minor issues but the core tenets are all agreed upon. To be in the community it requires this agreement. It’s neither good or bad, it’s simply insular.
I’ve also had more friends come out of polite disagreements here than any other “social” platform
100% this. All of the “we need to do ____ to make Nostr grow” is getting so tiresome. Maybe we should all just sit back and enjoy the fact that we get to communicate and share ideas with people from across the globe and send magic internet money to each other instantly and without permission 🤷♂️
Yes, exactly the conclusion I came to and hence I’m here now. Can’t sit on the sidelines, have to inject the diversity through participation in the conversation.
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