Oddbean new post about login | logout Why not both? How to meet people irl if you don’t have a common channel to coordinate? If the goal is to meet nostr people irl, then no problem but you’ve already won. If the goal is to bring people over here and have them abandon the panopticons, you need to first meet them where they’re at.
We are not digital beings. The interface we use to access the digital realm do not connect us the way a handshake or eye contact does. Until we reach that technology point. We need to meet people where they are, but that means meeting people. Commenting in threads online is not meeting people. It’s throwing text at then without context or nuance and generally lack emotion without verbosity, which no one has time for online.
I was specifically talking about means to coordinate, not means to engage. I agree with all you said regarding the digital and physical realms. However unless you spend your days preaching to every passerby (and the vast majority of them would think you are some kind of lunatic), it’s very effective to digitally handshake with strangers online, in order to arrange a physical meetup. And you can always continue to do that offline, too, by going to general conferences/meetups…
I see your point. I unfortunately still use FB because all the small business owners around me use it to communicate. But that started because I attend the monthly meetups with them.
Social media has a tendency to suck time that would otherwise be more productive, so I try to strictly limit my engagement. To that end, I use FB for some occasional family stuff, and I check Nostr every few days. I quit my Twitter account a few weeks ago because Nostr satisfies my need to keep tabs on the Bitcoin and Nostr world. I have more than enough with email lists, podcasts, and news sites to keep up with everything else. I'm not missing Twitter at all, now.