Sn is obviously social media.

Which is funny, because I was never drawn to social media at all. For some reason, Instagram, tik tok, Snapchat, Facebook seemed more like a retarded chore, than anything else. I made a twitter in 2021 to find bitcoiners, because I heard about "Bitcoin twitter", deleted it after I found nostr.

Nostr isn't social media. But it's drawing me into social media apps. Pretty strange.

Imagine a world where you actually get zapped when someone zaps you. So the more they zap you, the harder you get zapped.

edit: oh wait, this isn't the saloon lol

For me, Stacker News is a useful resource.

People have said it's more like a forum, and I think they're right.

I see SN more like this:

News, articles and discussions around Bitcoin. Call it an "ADVANCED" Bitcointalk forum.

And don't forget: SN was always a "Pay to post / say something". The so called "incentives" were used only to attract more users.

Nostr is something else. And nostr, is NOT a social media platform. Looks like, but is not. Is far way more than just that. I mean look at all these endless apps based on nostr: https://nostr.net/

I enjoy it for what it is. You can call it social media, news site, bitcoin forum. It doesnt matter, like minded people will always find a way to gather together.

When SN as a Nostr client? It will level-up the social networking.

I hope there will be future where the definition of social media will depend on a Nostr integration or not. A future where social is really social again with the integration of a protocol providing all the social aspects you would expect. Yes, Nostr is a protocol...but it also provides a network. I like networks, especially when they are social. Social networks > social media.

Sir, I feel personally attacked. 😅

It's so clearly social media to me, that I can't even think what operational definition you'd have to have to disagree with that.

What I suspect is going on is that people are so accustomed to deriding social media that they can't acknowledge SN as being a positive example of it.

That's a bit reminiscent of how "conspiracy theory" has come to be used to mean "bizarre idea" and no one refers to something like the official account of 9/11 as a "conspiracy theory" even if it obviously is.

for NOSTR, it may start looking like solely social media, but that's like saying the Internet is just forums, classifieds and email early on

Definitely, but lack of in-your-face ego manifestation means it's one of the better forms. Basically replaced reddit when they broke their APIs.

Nostr is mostly used like a Twitter. Just like with Twitter the experience is highly algorithm-dependent so lack of algo stunts it's growth. IMHO it should have shipped initially with more polish. Just today a major app disclosed a private key vulnerability that existed for 11 months!

IMO Nostr will not make it without pay-to-post. NGMI

The thing in my opinion that makes SN so special, is that someone in order to post has to put up 100 sats. It helps to reduce spam and makes people think...

Is this worth clogging up the feed with? Is this worth my time? Is this worth someone else's time? Because in my opinion if it's not worth a nickel (5 cents) then it's probably not worth putting up for other people. Save it.

A random picture of a sunset, or a random picture of someone's lunch and "how great it is" is not what I'm interested in seeing. However it's Nostr currently. It's with few exceptions extremely low effort and borders on Spam IMHO.

Make them pay a marginal fee to post... and social media/forums/internet interaction becomes that much more real. My energy (sats) to share and this is evidenced by those 100 sats. Energy is truth, work is truth. If it's worth it users pay to post... otherwise it's all just spam there is no 'free' not really.

Otherwise it's all pretending and it's not an improvement imo.

I feel they both could be classified as social media. I am hopeful that the slow steady growth and the fact that they are both built with Bitcoin incentives at the core, they will grow in a better way than what we have seen in the past. Nostr grown up will not look like Twitter grown up. And same for stacker vs. reddit. Incentives are important. And the future here won't be just cyber pink types. But there will still be Bitcoin at the middle. Which is exciting. Overall, I think we will age like fine wine here. Only time will tell.

Probably the thing I like most is Nostr is a place where I can read and talk about bitcoin. Maybe it's just my follower list, but 90%of weekday I see is bitcoin.

I think it is a social network, and unlike the rest, obviously what makes it more attractive are the incentives in on the other hand, I consider that being a small community, that is what influences the quality of the content you find here.

Regarding how addictive it is, I consider that it is at the right level. In the others you easily lose control 🕹️ you get trapped for 1 hour, the significant difference is that here your time is rewarded with value () in the others you just burn your time, in even if you don't stack a single in an hour, you at least learn something new, so by far is on another level with respect to social networks. And let's hope it stays that way, selecta. As people who seek Bitcoin to free ourselves from state control, we are and will always be a minority, the majority is too asleep and trapped in its short-term cycle to come to

And about Nostr 🟣 I think it's a bit more comprehensive and useful than just focusing on Tweeter imitations, although I must say that I'm an Amethys user and I think it's a very good application, I've also tried the Mostro P2P, something that's still new, but they're improving week by week, and it's developed by the same people 👥 from LNP2PBOT on Telegram step by step I'm trying other clients and learning more, but I definitely can't find anything similar to on Nostr.

For me personally, SN is and has become a learning and interaction platform for all of us who have discovered Bitcoin.

I see SN as a gamified writing platform. Community is smaller and it feels like a lot of us know each other even though we've never met.

Nostr is more open. Social media is just one of the things you can do on it. Its yet to be seen what it will turn into.

BTW, I sometimes forget that you can use SN without zapping.

It’s the most signal social media I know of. SN is a protocol also.