Why do people want all the short bus normies from the “platform internet” to come to this protocol? Seriously, I’m looking to understand the answer. It would immediately make Nostr suck. And we are not here for engagement farming and misery harvesting (which is what why X and those other platforms exist).

The early internet was much cooler when not everyone was on it. When it was decentralized protocols rather than monolithic platforms.

Nostr has always felt like that to me. Fun, limited/small, and generally smarter. I cannot understand the widely held desire to get everybody on Nostr. It’s not a centralized platform dependent on growth for its continuing existence. Over time, it will probably happen anyway, but what’s the rush?