1116 sats \ 13 replies \ @elvismercury 1 Nov 2023 \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon
Thanks for describing your muting criteria, I've been thinking about this since the feature was released. Given how contagious culture is, I mute rudeness, condescension, bullying, and abuse. It's the opposite of the community I want to be a part of and I have no patience for it. One Twitter is enough.
After a number of exposures, I eventually mute people whose signal-to-noise ratio is super low. If I know exactly what you're going to say, it's a waste of my attention to see the millionth version of the same thing. (This is the reason I hardly ever listen to btc podcasts anymore. Most of them have had nothing new to say since 2020.)
From time to time I reveal a "someone you muted" post, as @carlosfandango mentioned, to see if the person deserves another chance. So far, nope.
I agree with you, especially regarding the toxic crap. That's one reason I've never implemented wild west mode. I guess I should experiment just to see how bad things get.
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Same. I think there's a very interesting choice point ahead. If btc is literally the central construct of a community, then what do you get? Right now, the affiliation group around btc is familiar -- some Austrian econ, some anti-state / ancap stuff, assorted ranting that you can imagine being in a subreddit about the Green Bay Packers if there wasn't a btc sub to absorb it. It's pretty typical of subculture formation at this point in the process.
Here's a thought experiment: if you couldn't talk about btc AT ALL, what would be left, and how happy would you be with what was left? What's a desirable topic / ethos to unite a community that you'd want to be a part of? And who else would want to be a part of it -- you have to be careful to not define a new circle-jerk where you're the only one in the circle.
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Yeah, wild west mode looks fine after seeing the link @nemo sent. I of course agree about community. That's one of the best things about this joint.
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Nah there's plenty of new things that have podcasts about them e.g. Ark, BitVM, BIP324. Or new discussions brought on by what's going on in the ecosystem.
I've been shouting about bitcoin since early 2013, and I still listen to a lot of bitcoin podcasts myself. This narrative that it's all repeat stuff is incorrect IMO. Yes you should filter and curate your feed, but that's always been true.
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I guess I should have been more specific. Podcasts with new tech topics are abundant, as you mention. Discussions abt "what's going on in the ecosystem" are I suppose literally happening -- news about whether an ETF will be approved, or the Texas grid, or how Elizabeth Warren is terrible, or whether ordinals are stupid or not, or whether Udi or Nic are bad or good. Whatever.
To me, these are all just high-frequency noise, in the same way that news about a new donut shop opening is high-frequency noise. Nothing wrong with that, some people want to know the donut situation, but on a meta level, I don't care. If it wasn't this donut shop, it would be some other one.
Back in the day there were discussions about what btc meant, what it portended for the world, what the implications would be. Your brain was constantly blowing up trying to absorb it. This was the Age of Andreas. Hard to find that now. Not sure there's a market for it, either.
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oh no, @stephanlivera and @btcsessions are crying now, lol :)
I delight in being proven wrong, most of the time. Counter-examples are welcome.
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Here’s that @nemo again… back you go to muted lol.
Seriously, all valid points.
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