Why nostr matters
The existing landscape
- Good for arguing
- Lots of bots
- Lots of engagement farming
- Lots of censorship
Facebook
- More personal
- Lots of AI content
- Lots of low quality posts
- Bad algo
Instagram
- Ideally personal
- Great algorithm
- Weaponised by brands
- Exploitive advertising
TikTok
- china = bad
- indiscriminate algorithm
- pipeline for porn
- lots of fake content
- shallow engagement
Mastodon
- Decentralised
- Builder community
- Strong segregation (+/-)
- Censorship resiliant
- Biases
- Self governed communities problem
Common Issues
- Censorship
- Centralisation
- Bad incentive structures
- Bad algorithms
- Bias
- Lock in
What is nostr?
- Decentralised
- Portable
- Currency integrated
- Censorship resistent
- Good incentives
- Personally rewarding (bitcoin)
- Self signed (imitation proof)