monk_cactus on Nostr: So then what’s the “global town square”? It almost doesn’t even make sense as ...

So then what’s the “global town square”? It almost doesn’t even make sense as a concept. I suppose it refers to the global nature of the internet community. But it doesn’t seem to perform the same function. In its current incarnation (twitter, instagram, etc), the global town square is a place to score dopamine hits. It’s a place to indulge our basest desires: scantily clad bodies, videos of violence, excoriating people who hold contrary opinion, cat videos.