In his testimony at Meta's antitrust trial, Mark Zuckerberg confessed that social media has changed. He said it is over.
What does that mean?
In its heyday, social media connected people. People shared their lives - romantic updates, party and holiday pictures and what not. And the rest of us partook in it all. We liked, shared, poked. It was a place for friends to connect with friends.
But, now, fatigue has set in. We are no longer interested in the lives of other people. Dopamine stimulation lasts only so long. After that, everything gets jaded and boring. And that is precisely what has happened to traditional social media. No one cares about your holiday pictures any more or what you are doing at work or in your personal life. No one cares about your trendy new clothes or hairstyle. It has all gotten old.
It is incredible that traditional social media lasted almost two decades. But now it - Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, BlueSky, Mastodon - is all jaded.
Instead, people now want to share ideas and opinions, not their lives. I see a lot of that happening over at Nostr. People anonymously share their thoughts, opinions, ideas, their gripes and rants - anything but their personal lives. It is almost like we are returning to the heyday of the Internet - before Web 2.0, user-generated content, and social media took hold. When people anonymously shared thoughts, opinions, and ideas.
Nostr is ideal for that. Technology comes and goes in waves. So, one cannot be certain how long that charm of Nostr will survive. But, for now, Nostr is the future.