I was thinking about this a little and it seems people need to somehow be incentivized to talk to each other even if they disagree on things, not sure how to accomplish this
I actually think the tipping mechanism in nostr helps. It’s so easy to send someone penny’s people will start paying others to say nice things and that will attract more participation. But that could be used on any platform. What nostr solves is decentralized identities which solves deplatforming issues. The fediverse doesn’t have any solutions to de-platforming. Because it never tried to solve that problem. When people realize that on both facebook and the fediverse when they are banned they lose all their followers but on nostr they don’t I think they will understand the value of spending your time on nostr instead of the fediverse. Why would I invest years posting on a platform that can take away all my followers at a whim when I can instead do it on a platform where no one can? From a user’s perspective nostr just destroys activity pub. From the perspective of someone wanting to control narrative it’s a nightmare.
ihatetroons@exploding-heads.com 1 year ago
I know there are people like that, but that just feels weird to me. I get it for content creation (art, music, code, video, etc) or other things where people have to put in time and effort or provide a community service but have costs to offset. But literally paying someone based on what they say just feels alien to me. Maybe cuz I can’t think of it in terms of IRL interaction without imagining someone paying people to be friends with them.
I agree that the deplatforming concepts in nostr seem to have the right idea or at least are actually trying to solve that unlike fediverse.
Accessibility and UI/UX hopefully they will catch up on soon but I worry about the network effort though. Even for fediverse, compared to Twitter/Reddit/Facebook Fediverse traffic is a drop in the ocean. Nostr seems to be a drop compared to Fediverse traffic currently. Not saying to drop them cuz they don’t have numbers or anything. Just that I worry about things like low-adoption leading to eventual stagnation of development and more isolation in terms of thoughts/ideas (cz less people).
masterofballs@exploding-heads.com 1 year ago
I get so excited with someone sends me 3 cents. I know i’ll never use it most likely but I mean, you post lots of quality memes. To me it makes sense that people who enjoy it and want it to continue should start tipping.
I like to think of it less of a culture of paying to talk to someone and more of a culture of giving and celebrating each other and prosperity. As apposed to a communist fediverse where everyone complains about billionaires.