As long as people are posting to “audiences” over “peers”, the platform is doomed to become the same toxic echo chamber as everywhere else.  

Nostr only guarantees the freedom to speak, to be un-ban-able.  That’s all it’s really solving for. 

If we want better *communities*, we (the collective) should start optimizing for that with another layer on top of nostr. 

Personally, I think this is going to organically occur via apps using nostr as their delivery mechanism, but otherwise a tuned experience. These experiences will be opinionated. They will exclude some and invite others in (not literally, just based on the experience).  But, that’s what a community *is*.  That’s what a little tight-knit town *is*. 

If people are hoping for a place where *everyone* is be well-read, curious, and generally not a dick, it will never happen.