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 Floppy disk guy is right. Everyone here is overly optimistic and monothematic, it gets boring fast 😴
https://image.nostr.build/3b855a636ef63aaf3a6ae9e2b43fed999ef3c737cc829e9e0dd681e910bd59f7.jpg 
 Obsession with influencers doesn't help. The "trending" lists are generally the same group everyday.  
 nostr "trending" is garbage but I'm here for the "other stuff" rather than the twitter cloneage. 
 Absolutely. You just earned yourself a follower, fellow non-influencer 
 I think that some of that comes down to the fact nostr was conceived and is mainly being developed by people from the bitcoin community. And as a result, the largest group of people on nostr are bitcoiners. Doesn't help that many "normies" think that bitcoin=scam, so when those same "normies" join nostr some of the first things they see are about bitcoin so they nope the fuck out. It ends up being a chicken-and-egg problem caused by the fox having a field day in the henhouse. I think that if bitcoin haters can be convinced to not just join, but ignore bitcoin content altogether, we can get the diversification of content people want. 
 too much bitcoin  noise for nocoiner who dnot need any coin infact - technical stuff is all good - but  experts fro other fields have not arrived yet. possible due to 90% btc heavy crowd  
 Clearly noticed for 3months a group of 20 npubs always in some portals trending - (that even excludes jack or snowden) - not sure what algo they r using -  only know one web app where trending show frequent rotations many new npubs shows up - no name calling - just AVOIDING those echo algo apps. 
 Ok. Will post most angry content!!!!! 😡 
 you drink tea. you don't have a vote 🤣  
 Yes pls, that's all I'm asking 🙏 
 Everybody could try to be a little bit more angry and racist and post some murder porn maybe?  
 What good is free speech if you don't use it? 
 Pourquoi  ce  * le tout monde* revient sur chaque note... Le problème c'est la redondance d'une note sans esprit d'autocritique ou d'argumentaire dans les interactions.. Beaucoup  d'emojis pour aimer.. Cette semaine j'ai donné mon avis sur une note ouverte relative  au vote argentin et pour le Salvador . J'ai pu noter mes arguments ne passaient point... Snowder d'ailleurs sur une note remontait cet effet nostr un peu  complaisant c'est rare de voir une note sur laquelle on retrouve un esprit  d'auto-autocritique  argumentee  développée  infine j'ai cette impression que tous les utilisateurs ont le même avis ou boostent ou zappent surtout s'il s'agit de Bitcoin et Sats Sats ou anti systemes ...il y a des thématiques qui méritent d'être à la poubelle.  Un certain regard qui est mien.. Libre à qui veut de mettre sur mute.  
 Floppy disk guy is wrong. 
 yep

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 the *only* saving grace is that it actually gives you a chronological list of your follow's posts.

doesn't seem like that should be hard to come by but here we are. 
 Agreed. 
 Everyone on Nostr is right to be optimistic 
 Because if everyone does not believe in Tinkerbell, the magic spell breaks? 
 No? Being optimistic is about building not breaking 
 That's shitcoiner talk. Fake it until you make it 
 Wut? Lol… There is no “making it”. Building, life, bitcoin are a constant journey 
 We still have Twitter for your fix of normie takes 
 Normie takes? I see the most unhinged stuff on twitter.
In pessimism, confrontation and skepticism lies the truth. 
 So what is available on Twitter that isn’t here? What content do you specifically miss? 
 Criticism. Bubble bursting. Clashes of opposing perspectives. 
 Well let me burst your bubble then: Bitcoin is not going below $30k before the end of the year. And it was always an asymmetric bet because even if I lose, I pay you in sats that are easier to replace. 
 Double or nothing? 
 You really are seeking out pain. Sure I’ll up the wager to 200k sats. 
 Deal 
 🤝 
 🙄 people want violence 
 Ain't nobody stopping you from being pessimistic and pluralistic.

Be the nostr you wish to see. 
 I'm doing my best 💪 
 very good point - that reason not using CLOSED "communities"  with bossy moderators - creating replica of reddit or fb to extend its culture 
 Sorry dont have time to work on everything although I see room for improvement.

Mostly working on projects that use nostr for coordination like joinstr.

Also posted this so I can change my feed: https://primal.net/e/note10ypq8k3kevqvpmdvg0gxtppfa9fe2s2zu77cn5jpdfca6pck90ysxkfeua 
 I don't get the criticism? How is it difficult to do something new on nostr? And what is wrong about being enthusiastic about an awesome protocol? 
 >I don't get the criticism?

There's really nothing to get since the criticism is subjective. I hold that opinion and I understand if other people feel differently.

>How is it difficult to do something new on nostr?

On your own? Not difficult.
Getting other parts of the ecoysystem to join you. Harder if you are not an infouencer with a large following. But I don't see how that related to the original topic.

>And what is wrong about being enthusiastic about an awesome protocol?

On its own? Nothing. The issue arises when that's practically all you see on nostr. 
 > Getting other parts of the ecoysystem to join you. Harder if you are not an infouencer with a large following. But I don't see how that related to the original topic.

You can literally just do whatever you want. If the people want it, your proposal probably will get adopted, if not then at best you'll just be a niche client/interface for nostr.

> On its own? Nothing. The issue arises when that's practically all you see on nostr.

It probably sucks if you're not interested in _anything_ that is posted on here but then I'll give the borting anwer of: try to bootstrap the community you want to see on here. And I'd also imagine that it's a result of your own following list. Maybe there is a market for clients with the "For you" tab like Twitter has? 
 I'm aware that I have agency to change things. The good thing about nostr is that I can also voice my discontent with the status quo, such as I did in the OP. 
 Your mom! 
 Your criticism amounts to: people here are too happy and focused. 

Yes. 

maybe Twitter is for you. 
 Yes.

Twitter is 💩. Funny people assume you hate or attack something just because you criticize it.

The sentiment police is coming in full blast mode. 
 Never said you hated anything, nor do I think you’re “attacking” anything. 

Your criticism has is too lazy to be considered an attack. 
 I'll write  doctoral thesis next time 🤞 
 I can see it now: 

“The people around me are too peaceful and their attention isnt short enough to keep ME entertained” 
 80% app are TWITTER web like UX except 1 or 2. 
 where will i got to tell people to kill themselves? 
 Right here, tell it to me if you need to vent out 
 kill yourself 🫂 
 One day my friend, one day...