I want to like Nostr. And from a technical perspective I find it fascinating. Especially how its design makes institutional insertion much more difficult.

From a user perspective, less so. It feels like attending a dinner party where everybody else knows each other, talking about random things, and I’m just observing.

I get the complaint that X generates addictive behaviors. But there’s a middle ground between mostly viral posts and mostly random posts.

I wonder whether “relevant posts” is just something that decentralized platforms have a hard time doing.