zigg on Nostr: I have a distant cousin who tried really hard to be a rapper. He failed because ...

I have a distant cousin who tried really hard to be a rapper. He failed because instead of focusing on originality, he cared more about his leased sports cars, spray-tan wife, and trying to ride the coat tails of bigger artists by getting features.

One time, he really said something about it, though, that has stuck with me. He compared trying to maintain a social media following to "feeding the beast". And he said that if you miss a single day, you get forgotten about.

I think about that saying of his when I look at big tech social media algorithms. I think Nostr saves us from those kinds of shackles of communication and wanting to meet new people on the internet.