tree on Nostr: Nostr could grow, but growing means losing what makes it valuable to the people ...

Nostr could grow, but growing means losing what makes it valuable to the people already there.

Mass adoption brings the same problems they left Twitter and Facebook to escape - performative posting, algorithm gaming, superficial interactions. They'd rather have 100 real connections than 10,000 followers who don't care.

They chose authenticity over scale, quality over quantity, honest conversations over viral reach. That's why Nostr will never go mainstream.

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When I ditched facebook idk 5 years ago I gave everyone my phone number and twitter info…
I haven’t gotten a single text call from anyone and nobody filled me on Twitter…
When I pretty much stopped posting on Twitter I gave everyone my nostr info…
I don’t think anyone followed me over from Twitter…
Since deleting facebook and not posting/using Twitter I definitely get more real interactions with people then before…
Nostr is such a great thing…