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@ CitizenPedro
2024-12-14 20:45:59I would like to start by saying that I do believe that Nostr will become the generalistic social network of the future (at least one of the clients). This post is just a perspective of why perhaps that might not even matter in the end.
Every cultural change starts in a tribalistic way. People that agree with each other regularly interacting, exchanging ideas, etc.
Socialism, LGBT, ecological groups, etc, it's all organized tribes. People regularly interacting with each other with similar ideas. Going to events, workshops, bars, dinners, etc, etc. They then create change in the world by integrating with the power networks, as we've seen in history. It's all top down and there's usually lot of cultural weight. For example, the Bolsheviks had to use a lot of cultural projects to legitimize their power after the 1917 Russian Revolution. The point is it's always a minority changing culture. Gramsci, the idea of Cultural Hegemony. It never fails. The most organized minority tribe always changes the culture.
In Marxist philosophy, cultural hegemony is the dominance of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class who shape the culture of that society—the beliefs and explanations, perceptions, values, and mores—so that the worldview of the ruling class becomes the accepted cultural norm.[1] As the universal dominant ideology, the ruling-class worldview misrepresents the social, political, and economic status quo as natural, inevitable, and perpetual social conditions that benefit every social class, rather than as artificial social constructs that benefit only the ruling class.[2][3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_hegemony
This is obviously sick, because it's all authoritarian and culture should never be top down. Real culture should always be free, bottom-up. (More universalist in that sense).
So in that sense it makes sense that Nostr and Bitcoin are connected and that there's a kind of tribe forming around it too. And in that sense the real point is;
It doesn't really matter how many people are on Nostr, what truly matters is how engaged and connected to each other they are. Is there engagement? Yes. Then it will work.
This is currently more of a tribe than a generalistic social network. It just happens to be the best technical social network (because it's uncensorable).
And not just that, our tribe is the most diverse tribe. The most diverse tribe always wins because it is by definition the tribe with the most universalistic philosophy, the most open, the most open to innovation, and thus the most universalistic. The most universalistic philosophy always wins.
A great example is Reddit and how that creates the intelectual culture of our world, wrongly, distorted and censored as we know. Nostr might become or power something like that. The homebase of the most powerful and organized tribe in the world.