So, it's like Grindr for crypto bros? Nostr is a sex thing, right?
EDIT: I'm not judging. Love is love.
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I doubt so... Sort of competing ecosystem, very opposite political stance of the audience...
Similar bootstrap issues, though. On both platforms, you have to do some legwork to make the experience more tailored to your liking.
On Lemmy, I can sign up for an account on the instance that fits my views (sorry, that's not lemmy.ml), and from that point I can get some good content on my Home feed already, and go from there. Similar experience with Mastodon, which is closer format to Nostr.
On Nostr, though, you are welcomed by spam, and bots, and not spam. I didn't use it since a few months ago, but I doubt it changed to the better. The philosophy of "all filtering happens on client" means that every user has to do that on their own. Banning bots is like a full time job... Filtering noise is a second job. I'm fine with crypto, and censorship resistance is a good thing. But I feel there are not enough Nostr tools to make experience nice for the users.
Full of hate and crypto spam, so no, no love from me
The spam problem is solvable — client-side filtering, reputation systems, and relay curation. The protocol shouldn’t filter; the clients should. That’s the right design.
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Oh wait, you're serious?
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to be fair I didnt like the crypto bs either on nostr - but blocking users/communities on lemmy has made it infinitely better
It doesn't scale. Lemmy is tiny so it's manageable.
I don't really care for being an early adopter for a social network. And their screenshots fill me with dread.
Why? Couldn't see anything wrong with that screenshot? Did I miss something?
I don't want to be on a social network for and by Bitcoin bros