Catering to the dumbest of the dumb is a straw man argument. And it always has negative consequences. Just think a few steps ahead. What do normal users deal with? A username and password combination ...
> Catering to the dumbest of the dumb is a straw man argument
This teaches me something about argumentation; thanks for your wisdom.
I definitely don't support many things normies consider socially normal/acceptable when it comes to security and sovereignty in particular (the Google-based login is included, I don't support it), though I might use normality as an argument occasionally. Time to drop this habit.
Yet I don't support the idea that normies don't deserve censorship-resistant and zero-trust technologies either—Nostr in particular. At some point all this will become a normality (hopefully in some healthy way, not by pasting raw nsec on random pages or something), and I think it's great. Limiting this (to some kind of "smart enough" people) feels to me like saying normies don't deserve the internet at all, that they should be somehow separate from it. I might talk about it on my video channel in the future; looks like this paradox of "equal rights for everyone except <this category of people that I'm sure are backwards/dangerous/crazy>" is so deep; I can't properly articulate it in messages right now.
I'm not currently convinced that Nostr is risking becoming another Twitter. I think that some kind of natural segregation will happen anyway, but this will take place in the network. Feed algorithms perhaps will take place in such segregation. Many of us will ignore these algorithms and will keep building connections in a more natural way. Some of us will build private invite-only communities, etc.
This teaches me something about argumentation; thanks for your wisdom.
I definitely don't support many things normies consider socially normal/acceptable when it comes to security and sovereignty in particular (the Google-based login is included, I don't support it), though I might use normality as an argument occasionally. Time to drop this habit.
Yet I don't support the idea that normies don't deserve censorship-resistant and zero-trust technologies either—Nostr in particular. At some point all this will become a normality (hopefully in some healthy way, not by pasting raw nsec on random pages or something), and I think it's great. Limiting this (to some kind of "smart enough" people) feels to me like saying normies don't deserve the internet at all, that they should be somehow separate from it. I might talk about it on my video channel in the future; looks like this paradox of "equal rights for everyone except <this category of people that I'm sure are backwards/dangerous/crazy>" is so deep; I can't properly articulate it in messages right now.
I'm not currently convinced that Nostr is risking becoming another Twitter. I think that some kind of natural segregation will happen anyway, but this will take place in the network. Feed algorithms perhaps will take place in such segregation. Many of us will ignore these algorithms and will keep building connections in a more natural way. Some of us will build private invite-only communities, etc.
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