Oddbean

Right!? I wonder sometimes, at what point does that become a hindrance to adoption. There's so much transposed already... it's added variety, but I think it might already be to a point of being more of entertainment for those already committed to being here, than a hook for anyone new. Especially with the direction that general conversation has taken recently. I try to avoid doing it, always have. I only bring over stuff that I find super interesting, or reflects my mood/thoughts. I might be lame af sometimes but I'm not a copy of copy... I also don't consider myself a creator or curator though so... 😅 To each their own... I'll zap what I find meaningful, unless I've already seen it somewhere else. I'll ignore noise. I'll post authentically regardless of whether people like it or not.

I see a big difference between someone sharing something here because they find it interesting, versus the people who consistently plagiarize word-for-word and pixel-for-pixel. I see so much of the latter and probably need to just start unfollowing those who do it. At the very least they ought to credit the original they copied it from. Or they ought to rebrand their nostr profile/account to reflect the fact that they are simply reposting/copying content from other people. Lol. Idk if it hurts or helps nostr growth but it doesn’t make me want to follow them.

I wonder if it hurts because... if censorship resistance doesn't matter, and anonymity doesn't matter, and people are cozily entrenched in their current place, what value will they find in seeing all the things they've already seen? Lol anyway... I agree with tou completely.

i personally get tired of this rhetoric about how we are supposed to be fucking stage actors or something putting on a show for "followers" i think if you think this matters on nostr you don't get nostr nostr is a utility, not a way to funnel money from millions of idiots to a few selected "thought leaders"

I understand, but many great ideas only become reality because they are adopted by people who are more socially-minded than functionality-minded. There's a big area between the points you chose to reference, where all the stuff that will make this work happens.

i don't ever want to be surrounded by those types... i left facebook and twitter and reddit and all the other places behind long ago because they were like that nostr will make private or more closed groups possible anyhow