Oddbean

@ODELL @MartyBent Enjoyed the most recent RHR. You made a point about nostr’s “feel good vibes” being a product of the early-ness of new tech and the type of people who adopt it, with the implication that it will end up like the rest of the internet as adoption grows… I’d argue that even with a billion users, it will still be a dramatically better experience (socially and otherwise). The incentives in nostr are such that “good behavior” is actually celebrated and lifted up — not just because today’s nostriches are mostly decent people, but because (I think) most people are mostly decent, and want the world to be good. With the choice to create and participate in a healthy digital space, most problem will choose this. We can choose love algorithms instead of having an outrage algorithm forced down our throats. All sorts of content will live on nostr, sure, but it already does. Some heinous shit can be found in global feeds. But we can choose a different experience. We can zap good content. If the bell curve of humanity suggests that most of us are pretty decent, then nostr’s architecture allows and facilitates a mostly-good social space. Bitcoin (brilliantly) circumvents this risk by aligning self-interest/greed with positive externalities. Not so sure that nostr implicitly achieves the same, and I entirely agree that it’s naive to sugarcoat it. I’m young enough that I didn’t witness the “early feel good vibes” of other tech movements, so I could be naive in thinking that human nature will drive a primarily healthy nostr in the future. But I don’t think I am. Enough people (without any understanding of Bitcoin or nostr) are dissatisfied with today’s options to suggest that the middle/majority of the bell curve is fundamentally decent, and nostr has a framework such where a revolution could actually work. White pill pod, remember? 😉