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I'm not here on Nostr because I run away from Twitter. I'm here because I'm in search for an internet as it once used to be. I'm a hacker who fucking hates that social media is in the hands of private companies. I remember using IRC and meeting likeminded anons online. I remember what the internet utopia felt like. People who didn't care what your name or status is, people who aren't interested in sharing their boring holiday pics with random strangers online. I'm not interested in what politicians and influencers have to say. I don't care about the latest mainstream trend that's going viral. I want random weird interesting smart people around me who share their ideas in a free and open space that isn't controlled by anyone. That's all I'm looking for. There aren't many such spaces on the internet.

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I'm not here on Nostr because I run away from Twitter. I'm here because I'm in search for an internet as it once used to be. I'm a hacker who fucking hates that social media is in the hands of private companies. I remember using IRC and meeting likeminded anons online. I remember what the internet utopia felt like. People who didn't care what your name or status is, people who aren't interested in sharing their boring holiday pics with random strangers online. I'm not interested in what politicians and influencers have to say. I don't care about the latest mainstream trend that's going viral. I want random weird interesting smart people around me who share their ideas in a free and open space that isn't controlled by anyone. That's all I'm looking for. There aren't many such spaces on the internet.
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calle's avatar calle
I'm not here on Nostr because I run away from Twitter. I'm here because I'm in search for an internet as it once used to be. I'm a hacker who fucking hates that social media is in the hands of private companies. I remember using IRC and meeting likeminded anons online. I remember what the internet utopia felt like. People who didn't care what your name or status is, people who aren't interested in sharing their boring holiday pics with random strangers online. I'm not interested in what politicians and influencers have to say. I don't care about the latest mainstream trend that's going viral. I want random weird interesting smart people around me who share their ideas in a free and open space that isn't controlled by anyone. That's all I'm looking for. There aren't many such spaces on the internet.
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A relative issue I see is that the best Nostr clients mimic the twitter structure, which focuses on names rather than subjects, and we are missing names compared to twitter, at least in any subject other than bitcoin. Something like stacker news is interesting, I miss clients that put more focus on subjects rather than names.
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I think you are onto something: When posts and follows are organized by author, authors are incentivized to use eye-grabbing rhetoric, to provoke adrenaline and make people want more, and to get more: More likes! More followers! When posts are organized by topic, contributors can speak freely, but there is less incentive for authors to seek followers through rhetoric, and more incentive to gain community respect by providing useful perspective. Not that the latter can’t happen on author-organized services, but the incentives seem to distract from it. The author-focused services feel noisier and frenetic or schizophrenic, while the subject-focused services feel more focused and useful.
I'm not running away from the legacy web. The legacy web is running away from me!
calle's avatar calle
I'm not here on Nostr because I run away from Twitter. I'm here because I'm in search for an internet as it once used to be. I'm a hacker who fucking hates that social media is in the hands of private companies. I remember using IRC and meeting likeminded anons online. I remember what the internet utopia felt like. People who didn't care what your name or status is, people who aren't interested in sharing their boring holiday pics with random strangers online. I'm not interested in what politicians and influencers have to say. I don't care about the latest mainstream trend that's going viral. I want random weird interesting smart people around me who share their ideas in a free and open space that isn't controlled by anyone. That's all I'm looking for. There aren't many such spaces on the internet.
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