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That's the reason I personally avoid Nostr. I know it's unfair because Nostr itself is actually a cool protocol that has nothing to do with bitcoin, but the ste
by bogwog 3y ago
That's the reason I personally avoid Nostr. I know it's unfair because Nostr itself is actually a cool protocol that has nothing to do with bitcoin, but the stench of that is hard to wash off. I wouldn't want to build something that becomes associated with bitcoin just because of the name of the protocol.
It's like whenever there was a reddit/twitter/etc alternative some years ago following outrage, it'd get flooded with some of the worst people on the internet. Voat comes to mind as a pretty competent reddit clone that had potential, until it got overrun with nazis/racists and other kinds of losers. I was very close to releasing an app for that one, but abandoned it once it became clear the direction the userbase was going.
- deified 3y agoYeah. I love these new approaches to social networking and especially decentralized ones, but after joining Nostr and experiencing it for a while I got so tired of all the crypto talk. I'm pro crypto, I just don't want to only read about crypto
- treyd 3y agoThat's a huge indicator to me that Fedi is wayyy ahead any of the other "alt social media" projects. That normal, non-technical people use it to talk about normal real-life things in their day wayy more than they use it to just talk about how much they like Fedi / the thing / related thing. At least Bluesky as reached that bar too, but Nostr and none of the other crypto-y social media have.
- poulpy123 3y agoI had a look at some nostr apps, and I was extremely impressed by the speed and the fact that even decentralised it seems that all nodes are integrated (not like mastodon). But I can't get over the bitcoin scam everywhere
- npoc 3y agoIn what way is bitcoin a scam, and gold isn't?
- apitman 3y agoWho said gold isn't a scam?
- npoc 3y agoDo you think gold _is_ a scam?
- apitman 3y agoI was mostly being contrary, but honestly I kind of do.
- npoc 3y agoGold itself? or the scams it enabled due to weaknesses in its monetary qualities? For example, coin shaving (difficult to quantify without a scale), counterfeiting (tungsten wrapped gold), fiat central banking with zero reserve (due to poor portability + above) which transfers enormous wealth from entire populations and countries to the bankers? Or maybe its scarcity? The amount of above-ground gold doubles every 50 years (which halves its value). All weaknesses that bitcoin has solved BTW