Oddbean new post about login | logout I normally like your stuff, but this misses the mark. You're defining the elite by behaviors you don't like so as to push a usage pattern you'd prefer. This among other things puts you in the nostr elite. I think of elite theory mostly through a lens of Pareto distributions. It is worth arguing that we should encourage a more healthy distribution, but trying to distinguish yourself from others in that part of the distribution is a very elite thing to do.
Except that I noted repeatedly that I am increasingly fighting the tendency to act like this, myself, because I find it so irritating when other people do. And, apparently, I'm not the only one who finds it irritating or counterproductive. I'm in the line of fire, now, because I wrote a common complaint down so clearly that they finally can't ignore it. nostr:note1rv00wfg2m0y4mkl5csq432dww2a83qcs4sryeq4nal22mqtv6cwq62krrm
it got me a lot of flak in the early days too because it just was cringe circle jerk one of us one of us shit
Well, I don't mind him getting mad and muting me. I do it myself, all the time, even if I hardly have anyone muted, anymore. Most of them probably have me muted, anyway. But the accusation that I'm pushing some weird American academic social philosophy because I made a pointed critique about drive-by posters from X and Instagram, is ridiculous.
I don't think he's upset that I wrote this, tho. It was just me shitposting and ranting, as per usual. I think he's upset that so many people liked it.
idk, it might just be that precautionary "hey, wait, maybe this girl is peddling socialism" thought i didn't even think of the "drive by posting" part of it, i had in my mind the pablos and fiatjafs and miljans and others (and that's why it's also extra funny because hodlbod just isn't in that category of cool kid devs club clan)
He put me on the Red List. 😂
haha, rabble is on my red list, he even engaged with me trying to play down his redness
Hey, we Commies are allowed to use Nostr, too! 😂
reds can show up all they like but they have to deal with sharp tongued misesians
oh please someone make a "Sharp-Tongued Misesian" badge 😂
I thought everyone was used to the whole "team sports" thing by now. 😂
I think you might take yourself too seriously. I don't even follow you, much less keep obsessive account of reactions to your notes. It caught my eye because this "elites" or "priesthood" stuff crops up on nostr every so often, and it's divisive and pointless. I don't know why people have to fight over their slice of the (so far nonexistent) pie. Doing so jeopardizes the whole project. But I do want to apologize for the way I said what I did, because it contributed to the problem. I was not focused on you, but on your rhetoric, and so failed to follow James 3, Romans 12:18, and just treat you like a person. Please forgive me for that.
At least you're working hard for all your well-deserved follows!