pallabjd on Nostr: (Come to #Nostr if you don't get bored reading an irritatingly long post:) Left ...

(Come to #Nostr if you don't get bored reading an irritatingly long post:)

Left LinkedIn, left Facebook, left Instagram. Never started using Tiktok.

Using WhatsApp and Telegram only because of professional reason.

Reducing the use of X (Twitter). Will use Discord for only 8 weeks. Don't know anything about any other social media.

Reducing the use of YouTube and Google search but haven't find any reliable alternative yet.

Not because I hate them. In fact, I love them more than Nostr. I found most of these social media platforms pretty decent and usefull in many ways.

For example, Facebook was the first social media I used. I found a lot of good friends there, got a lot of knowledge and informations from different Facebook groups.

YouTube is still my first priority for a detailed To Do video about almost anything. Found all the Bitcoiner communities and all the other Bitcoin related things on Twitter first. In fact, Twitter was the place where I first got introduced to Nostr.

But every decission comes with a trade off; Most importantly an opportunity cost. When we use something or decide to use something, we take the risk of loosing the next best thing we could have instead. And by looking at the opportunity cost of our decision, we can have an idea of how good or how bad the original decision was.

From Fiat to Bitcoin, from Facebook to Nostr, this phenomenon applies to everything. when we accept fiat as money, we loss the opportunity of accepting Bitcoin, hence loss all the advantages of a far superior, more reliable sound money. But when we accept Bitcoin, we just loss the opportunity (?) of using a less reliable, far inferior fiat money or any other crypto that are not capable of providing all the advantages of Bitcoin any way.

Something similar can be seen in case of social media. When we use any traditional, centralized social media, we get some nice looking features, a fancy feeling, some nicely done UI and a relatively smooth experience. But in return, we gradually become a puppet of algorithms, unwillingly become a target of marketing gimmicks, a source of personal data and we also loss the opportunity of getting all the benifits of a totally decentralised protocol. Those "all the benifits" includes thing like sensorship resistance, which is a nice way of ensuring freedom of speech. And vice versa when we actually start using Nostr instead of all these social media platforms.

Of course nostr is not perfect and not yet capable enough to immediately replace all those platforms at once. but just look the trade off! I mean getting non-kyced verified ticks, not having the risk of personal data leak, not having to worry about getting banned, not having to be a puppet of algorithms, a target of advertising, a victim of server demage/hacking etc, just for a little inconvenience of using the nostr client apps/websites?

I don't think there is any logical explanation of not using nostr over other social media platforms, unless we consider being addicted to a certain social media platform (other than nostr because it doesn't have an addictive algo) as a "logical explanation".