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2025-04-30 03:25:58
imo, Nostr distills the basic principle of untethered information broadcasting that made Twitter so great early on (or so I have heard because I only joined it in 2019) through "call and response" types of consensus-making rather than engagement metrics as an indicator of truth.
while not *irrelevant*, the numbers matter far less than the principles of successful communication, which is the feeling that one is being heard, and the style by which people transfer information without the crash-and-burn cycles of "Breaking News" elsewhere.
this matters when the goal is to create communities with open dialogue rather than a competitive environment where likes and follows determine who gets seen and heard the most.
I think we all just become better communicators when we know nobody is trying to stifle us.
the difference really isn't all that subtle anymore.