I posted a 5‑slide carousel on Instagram today (I know… why even bother? Fair question). I almost never talk about Bitcoin there as I spend 95% of my time on Nostr, but since I still use IG occasionally for photography, I was curious to see what kind of reaction it would get.
And honestly, the responses were exactly what you’d expect from the mainstream crowd.
The divide is striking: most people on traditional social platforms have no idea how money works, what fiat really is, or what Bitcoin actually solves. The misconceptions run deep across the whole spectrum of topics around value, time, energy, and sovereignty.
Thought I'd share for an interesting discussion...
I've often wondered if there was much of a bitcoin scene on Instagram. It's pretty bad.
"An advertisement for Bitcoin" - sounds like they can't imagine anything outside of the things about which they've already made up their minds...probably they don't even realize that their minds have been made up.
It does make me wonder what sort of message would get through.
Well the fact that they were receptive right up until the mention of bitcoin shows that they at least see the problem. They just don't see or understand how bitcoin solves the problem. That at least gives us some hints on the intellectual barriers people face. It seems like the objections fall into 3 main categories:
That at least gives us some directions to focus our orange pilling efforts on
Well it looks like you have a lot of work to do educating these folks since you opened up pandora's box.
Totally shows lack of knowledge and education related to Bitcoin ecosystem. Most of the main stream social media users are not aware of alternate economy that Bitcoin has to provide.
I generally dislike trad social media and i do my best to steer clear of it, like you. That said, I think your message was probsbly a little aspirational for the audience there.
Do you think all of societies woes stem from the fiat monetary system?
If you do then do, then it sort of maks it sound like youre preaching a new age religion.
Man is bad, money is technology. Evil has existed long before fiat and will continue ling after.
Instagram is a fiat consumption app, it curates the idea of how to spend, what to spend and selling people dreams of earning more/yield in order to consume more. No hope there
Great for commerce though, so if you sell a good or service you already have a primed auidence. Better approach to instagram is to sell something the algoholics can consume and sweep the profits into Bitcoin yourself