Oh my, what’s that thing? I tried nostr earlier this year after reading about their tech side and finding it interesting, but then I met their human side and… it was shocking (I lack words to properly explain the feeling). Most posts were (in order of cryptocurrency praising like it’s 2015, bashing on leftism, some weird humor I didn’t understand (maybe it was better not to understand), anti-government stuff, racist memes and a (maybe lost) user that posted some beautiful photos they took as amaetur photography practice. I literally stopped scrolling and uninstalled it when I saw a post claiming that pasteurizing milk is a genocide and an act from the government against us (the other users were even endorsing it!)
Most posts were, in order of amount of occurrence: cryptocurrency praising like it’s 2015, bashing on leftism, some weird humor I didn’t understand (maybe it was better not to understand), anti-government stuff, racist memes and a (maybe lost) user that posted some beautiful photos they took as amaetur photography practice.
Yup, it’s beautiful. You know you can block, though, and filter content to only those you follow?
IMHO it would work better like a web of trust, then having to either whitelist or play whack-a-mole. I’d rather just join an instance that doesn’t allow racism.
iloveDigit@piefed.social 2 months ago
Definitely a good technology overrun with cultists. Better content curation tools & more users will fix it
Heads up, I sometimes post screenshots of replies like this as examples of how nostr looks to outsiders, because those cultists act confused about why no one joins
morto@piefed.social 2 months ago
Did you say screenshot? I better fix the typing errors and dress my finest clothes!
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
It’s a shame that Nostr’s brand is tainted by its community in a lot of people’s eyes, there’s a lot to like about it as a protocol and as a free software project that is independent from that stuff.
OpenStars@piefed.social 2 months ago
Tbh I think of Lemmy in the same terms. Like, people contemplating coming here from e.g. Reddit could block all the anti-Western propaganda (e.g. calling for actual murder against us), and find some pools of content that are halfway worthwhile… but like, why would they bother? For the ideological purity of not contributing to enshittification? Anyone who thinks that way is already here though.
Whether facing “leftist” tankies on Lemmy or “conservative” right-wingers on Nostr, mainstream non-technical normie users are going to just nope right out of either.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
If you avoid one or two instances you rarely encounter tankies on Lemmy.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Fair, I’m not sure what the solution would be though, even if you explicitly want to optimize for getting as many people as possible using decentralized social media regardless of their politics or cultural preference.
MITM0@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Honestly normies shouldn’t even be on the internet
MITM0@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What’s stoping you from creating leftist hotspots in Nostr ?
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
The fundamental architectural decisions are stupid in precisely the way all libertarian projects are and make healthy behavior maladaptive for potentially toxic agents that might otherwise remain relatively innocous.
MITM0@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh potentially toxic ? Who decides what’s toxic ?
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
You think those are gonna convince anyone?
iloveDigit@piefed.social 2 months ago
They can either be convinced or embarrass themselves ignoring evidence. Either way, proving a statement is ridiculous is proving it
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
How is ignoring evidence embarrassing? To you perhaps, to me certainly. But why would it embarrass them?