People who yell “echo chamber” usually are just deriding the idea of community. The people I’ve met and interacted with because of bitcoin and nostr are probably the most diverse people I’ve even known, spanning across multiple demographics of every sort, and are some of the most intelligent critical thinkers I’ve ever encountered. Yet we find community around certain topics and values. That is not an echo chamber. It is a community.
I would agree to this point ☝️
If they are yelling it’s emotional. The idea of an echo chamber within community is very real. I’ve been exposed to many of them and though they are indeed community they commonly end up with the lot of agreement over the same ideas. Not a bad thing but certainly off putting to those coming in with contrary points of view. All religion tends to end up in such a place. Small discrepancies of view over minor issues but the core tenets are all agreed upon. To be in the community it requires this agreement. It’s neither good or bad, it’s simply insular.
I’ve also had more friends come out of polite disagreements here than any other “social” platform
100% this. All of the “we need to do ____ to make Nostr grow” is getting so tiresome. Maybe we should all just sit back and enjoy the fact that we get to communicate and share ideas with people from across the globe and send magic internet money to each other instantly and without permission 🤷♂️
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