Oddbean new post about login | logout Nostr is about replying. Engaging in conversations. Building your social graph. There is no algo to spoon feed you. Effort is rewarded. https://m.primal.net/Kcfz.jpg
Sounds good. Hope you are having an excellent Tuesday. It’s all about making friends :) https://v.nostr.build/cM4A8KXgM7tpMk0b.mp4
Thanks dad
Was thinking the same thing. The more you pour out, the more you receive. Completely opposite from most social media experiences. Traditional social media, no one wants to be reply guy. With Nostr, reply guy is where you want to be.
Good to know. On X I'm reply guy.
it's about vibes
“Nostr is dead” https://media.tenor.com/jDJkh3w0wTAAAAAC/gregzaj1-ln_strike.gif
Tragic innit? 😂
love when birds land on my face.
True. So true. I find the experience of engaging with others on their terms to be much more rewarding than influencer expectations
Remove the post button #replyonly
So, what is the reward?
Speaking from a pleb who started December 22’ I found many real life friends, many online friends and overall a community of like minded plebs building the tomorrow we envision our children raised in. Everyone has their own rewards though as we navigate the protocol.
I also have close to zero engagment on twitter :)
Typos lower credibility
Kno thay dount.
What’s credibility?
How much do you trust a message when it's got wrongly written words?
Also, do you, don’t expect anything from the world. It doesn’t owe you shit.
I was promised free smiles
Vibes mate ^^
replies make notification bell NGU
One has much to learn in order to figure out how to get the best experience out of Nostr The fun part: time is on your side Now that you can’t be cancelled, the conversations you do strike up, or the follows you do choose, have better longevity So the chances of valuable exchange is far higher over the life time value (Wow, it’s fun how replying intuitively helps you reach important conclusions!)
Right, and interoperability creates a low time preference mentality. You can build from client to client where as before your time was capsulated within a walled platform.
I tried this earlier this year with longer form writing on @YakiHonne Good reminder to get back to trying out different things
The “Other Stuff” keeps getting better. Last week I did Nostr without Notes using only other stuff. I’ll be doing this more often with the amount of development going on.
Can you give an example of what that actually means? Keen to learn
I did a week without twitter replacement clients. Used Fountain, Wavlake, Hable, Ox, Zap.Cooking, Nostr.Build, Tunestr and etc. Used Nostr through the other stuff.
Nice. So as a content creator I can look at Fountain (not iTunes) Wavlake (not spotify) Habla (not substack) Etc I think one of the reasons I got burnt out on previous platforms is the sense of how futile one’s audience actually is, you don’t own it, & it can be removed at the drop of a hat Plenty to work on!
And plenty more is coming. It’s a veritable torrent around here. I can’t keep up. Not even close. In a way, it’s like we forked the internet from 1994 and are rebuilding all that came after that again. This time without “walled garden building materials”.
Keep up boomer!
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I’ll be honest… as much as you are on top of the news and updates via Bitcoin And… There’s no way in hell anyone can keep up with the projects and news of the Nostr ecosystem. And we just know the English projects. Who knows what’s going on in Japan, Thailand, etc. 😂🤙🏻
No shit! God I love this thing.
I made this gif a long time ago. Still relevant. https://i.nostr.build/DvYj.gif
Dark Forests are the best biomes
The strangest, most unique creatures are there
NostrApps.com is a solid list to play around with. Keep in mind this projects are still being built for the most part. Nice to jump around from time to time and see development. Here’s a little graphic I made which highlights the vast array within the ecosystem. There are a lot more now since I made that and the list continues to grow. 🤙🏻 https://m.primal.net/KdKw.jpg
YMMV
I hope more of my favorite hobbies become prevalent on Nostr. Sometimes difficult to find people to follow.
Like what?
D&D, Warhammer 40k, Anime to name a few. Sure it's there, but there's certainly more room for growth.
I’ve been here for a short time, but my impression is that is much easier to get engagement on nostr than trad social media. It might be because I share interests with the majority here, I don’t know. All I know is that this looks very much alive
I don't join any social media for money or engagement. My use of both Nostr and X are the same, e.g. post, follow, comment, repost, dm... Fuck money, fuck fame. It is about being genuine, seeking truth, and enjoying each other's company as humans. nostr:note1fs6aqgj3juxfgqerk8defjjmuymwlyzksemd6jnrsqku3k7v5nls6gjzyc
this is probably the best part of #nostr !! No alogs to give that dopamine hit 🎯 I like the calmness around here and the fact that I have more time to take in the information without the overload.
lol good. Reciprocity is the word!
I want to run a node. How can I start? I have a machine ready to go.
Exchanging Pure Human Empathy is rewarded. Before Money there was Barter, obviously that was mainly before Money but it was also many thousands of years before people had numerousy. Imagine trying to exchange things without Money and more importantly without any concept of numbers. The real exchange is very hard to imagine as part of a Human Construct. If you try and forget maths and Money too, which is very hard to do, you will realise that the exchange is the pure human empathy of all parties. Money has never been able to perfectly rate that exchange. Bitcoin gets very close to perfectly rating that exchange. Nostr is trying to exchange the same Pure Human Empathy, but without the security and protection of the Bitcoin protocol. This is not a criticism, it's an observation of the process of evolution, well that's my intention and what's in my mind as I type this. The power to say and exchange what you want, is only a power in the long term if you do good. The exchange of pure human empathy by, close to, immutable truth, is a power for good. I doubt whether you can abuse IT, but the power is in you, why would you try. Peace ❤
Nice to meet you!
Facts
I am trying my best 😁https://media.tenor.com/fukyy8-b8pMAAAAM/cats-toby-the-cat.gif
Maybe the problem is they came to take rather than to give.
Exactly!
Nothing beats engaging with a like minded community!
To be honest, that graphic is what X is like now, even with algorithms. Engagement and energy is just way down from the old days. And all the fake accounts don't help any. Even a censored place like Bluesky has more energy these days, go see for yourself. But you're right that if you want engagement on Nostr you'll have to try harder than I have so far. But that's ok. Right now it works the way it should -- I get to see the content I want to see, chronologically displayed, not what the algorithm deigns to show me. Completely uncensored chronological feed = underrated Quality of content/discussion is far more important than quantity of followers. This is not X and shouldn't try to be.
Yep. We have been groomed to love the algorithms! YT, IG, and most others the same. No cognitive effort needed. No critical thinking required. Just slide into the bubble of your own making. Yikes!
stick figure explanations for the win
This nostr:nevent1qqsycdwsyfgewry5qv3mrku5efd7zdh0jptgvakaff3cqtwgm0x2flcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygzmqxp6kmp7xg4lf4qudvawlxzk9g2ys3ahfx25xunu25u6z9zk8cpsgqqqqqqsvnrqhh
100% That's why it feels better
Each to their own. Ignoring nostr now is like ignoring Bitcoin between 2009-2012 and one day people will say "you got lucky for getting zapped on nostr early"
Algo stuff what ruins them all. It drives you by your nose and will sell you all the stuff in the process. Nostr is here to change it. nostr:nevent1qqsycdwsyfgewry5qv3mrku5efd7zdh0jptgvakaff3cqtwgm0x2flcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgs9kqvr4dkruv3t7n2pc6e6a7v9v2s5fprmwjv4gde8c4fe5y29v0srqsqqqqqpgkmank
Twitter is dead. Engage eachother on Nostr
So true. Only been on #nostr a couple weeks and conversations are actually engaging, intelligent, educational, etc. unlike the battlefield of X.
On Nostr, being a reply guy is how you fine tune and tweak your own algorithm 😂
The lesson here: Don't follow big accounts! The ones that Primal suggests you should follow at initial set up. They're arrogant and mostly post crap. Take time to find your niche. nostr:note1fs6aqgj3juxfgqerk8defjjmuymwlyzksemd6jnrsqku3k7v5nls6gjzyc
Nice. I want to engage more, although sometimes I feel I am only engaging to take something and not to add something due to my current limited knowledge on the topics that are most discussed and attract me the most.
Totally ok in my opinion. You have to take more at first when engaging in new topics. On the other hand, you might bring value even if you only ask questions. Maybe you ask a question never ask before, shining a completely new light on a topic?
Damn straight! Well said, quiet.
Best explanation I’ve seen.
Fuck.GIF
Definitely learning this the more I use Nostr. Engaging in conversation is more rewarding than shouting into the void and seeing if something sticks ( like on the bird app).
Hold off. I haven’t been on x for a few months now. Totally fine. Nostr all the way
Buenas tardes!
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