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 “I joined nostr and only saw bitcoin content so i left”

Yeah well i joined bluesky and only ... 
 There is at least more substance on bluesky. I find a variety accounts dedicated to music, sports, vintage computing, and memes. Everything on nostr is largely bitcoin only. I don't give a fuck about 'stacking sats' or your garbage coffee. 

Nostr complains twitter, x, whatever is an echo chamber, when in reality this place is the largest circlejerk of any social media. 

There will only be positivity about bitcoin and bitcoin related topics because that in turn gets people to send sats in return. 

This diminishes any type of future creativity because there is a precedent set that bitcoin is an eternal god you must follow to be welcomed and to be able to earn pennies. 

There is plenty of criticism about bitcoin that should be outlined, but any room for that type of discussion, or even anything else will be ignored and as you scroll down your feed you will see more of the same e-begging for bitcoin with over 20 likes. 

Nostr will fail as a mainstream social networking platform UNTIL it stops making bitcoin their personality. 

The idea of nostr is amazing, but it gives me an absolute fucking headache hearing about bitcoin each time I open the app.