So... if you use "social media", which as horrible as it is has also changed the world for better and worse, then you ought to look at Nostr.
It is decentralized, based on keypair cryptography (sound familiar yet?), and as it grows is likely difficult to stop. It has an enormous amount of Brazilians using it. I assume that could be because the creator of the protocol is Brazilian, but I also think the censorship there is another potential reason.
Nostr is NOT A PLATFORM. It is a protocol. Because of this it will be used for things that no one is even thinking of yet. Entrenched platforms like YouTube will most likely pay it no attention as people build things that will compete against them on top of the protocol.
But for now it is being used mostly as a Twitter like system. Maybe <1% of what Twitter sees. Lol. I suspect Elon is not worried. He will see it soon enough.
Bitcoinners are rampant.
Another reason I hope others will come, but if you like echo chambers there is a little bit of that there now too. It is at least a Bitcoin friendly place. Along with all the other sorts of kooky things bitcoinners seem to like like meat diets, and stupid kitchy things like calling each other "plebs".
But the protocol matters.
It is 2012 for NOSTR in Bitcoin terms. You might not get rich "investing early" in NOSTR unless you are someone who understands what it actually is and work to create something useful for people atop of it. In that case you could start the next LinkedIn (that founder is about to get swept into the Diddy fiasco... Lord...) or whatever else could run on the protocol.
Some day soon the difference between silos of information as we have today with the internet, and independent information broadcasters using relays and cryptographic proof to send information to those who are willing to receive it will yield great benefits to the quick to understand (alas... I am simply too lazy to become fabulously wealthy and powerful with the imbalance I can see here in information flow... but YOU could! If you do please remember me for pointing the way) and that time will be here soon enough... months? decades? I dunno. Who knows?
Years back I saw that keypair cryptography would change the world with simple messaging. PGP/GPG were game changers. Later I saw it would change the world with money. (preaching to choir) Now I see it will change the world with broadcasting information.
I have a little pile of sats i use to "zap" other users when they post something that makes me happy. I probably won all of these in less than one pot playing penny poker against a stoner using Silk Road back in the day.
Yes... I brag. But if you read between the lines I do not brag as much as confess my own lack of ability to see the future. Or at least profit on it... again.
https://nostr.net/https://snort.social/nprofile1qqsqt9ezt8kxs05cg08p97hxemw6qmn9qck0kq28n832h4ft9yet4espzdmhxue69uhk5mt0daek2tnjda3kkue0qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcprpmhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0gp33s4See you all later... or ping me on Nostr... I hang out there now mostly... It's still boring now... lol.
I could also be wrong... I often am.
P.S. Users and proponents of Nostr are all trumpeting how "YOU OWN YOUR OWN DATA". You cannot be the product anymore like you have been with google and FB, IG, TWI... X? etc...
LOL
This is analogous to early Bitcoinniers thinking Bitcoin was private.
DYOR. And this is not stopping it, for sure.
