yunginter.net on Nostr: Bsky gives the impression of being written by social media public relations graduates ...

Bsky gives the impression of being written by social media public relations graduates who are resistant to change from their old ways. Although their attempts at creating viral content are well-written, there is no technical infrastructure of going viral to support their efforts. They literally are following everyone to unfollow them later as a strategy. Unfortunately, I have not gained much knowledge from the platform aside from a few responses to my own posts. No one prepared these people for 600 changes a year to the algorithm rendering their training useless, let alone a future where they were the customer paying for there not to be an algorithm.

Bsky asks questions like “black-bsky when” which we have since learned thanks to the open sourcing of the algorithm, black twitter was much more of a censoring of black voices on twitter, being demoted by the algorithm for non standardized spelling. a manual eco chamber of reposts to deal with living in this algorithmic ghetto, rather than a culturally positive thing that should be celebrated, desired, and replicated.

During a "hell thread" incident, the developers at Bsky Inc. tend to participate in the thread rather than setting an example and creating new threads until is patched (which a week later it’s still not). Those who believe their pr push for moderation is going to be tooled rapidly by these same devs who can’t see building a replying to: module is very shallow waters of the same thing (keep my mentions safe from irrelevant spam has to come before keeping my mentions safe from offensive content) are going to be very furious at these same devs when they won’t be able to keep them safe. Everything is a week away, but now it’s two weeks later.

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Nostr is lacking in diverse content. There are memes related to Bitcoin and nostr-promotion, but outside of that it feels much more genuine, strategy-less. I have learned a lot about nostr on nostr but also tech related things. I’ve learned more about at protocol on nostr than on bluesky. It reminds me of the early days of Twitter, before I could convinced my friends to use anything other than Facebook, in that they could wrap their mind around “friends” a two way connection, but followers seemed like something you only need as a business. As a result of there not being massive onboarding of established clicks, people on Nostr are open to making new connections. We’re just starting to see an interest in hashtags, or groups, or channels to allow for a more diverse set of content. I think because of the focus on raw reputation, we want people to use their main account, but this also requires a good amount of tooling on this one account to access all the different note kinds and not spam the kind 1 feed with a contextless response “is this Lana del ray?”.

During a "hell thread" incident, the NOSTR devs create new notes outlining their plans to rapidly develop a solution. They share their stream of consciousness on the issue, workshopping feedback, but also have strong opinions of their own. Unlike spending days fielding suggestions in the hell thread without a solution, they hint and lead by example at how to avoid participating in the meantime.

Nerds will keep nostr alive when the tide goes out, and the tide will come back even stronger. when the tide goes out under the bsky I think a musky zucky cloud comes in and “rescues” the index giant.