Of course they haven't onboarded a single community, that was my point exactly: the software exists, it works, and yet it's far from sufficient.

Meanwhile communities have been formed in many other places where the software didn't exist or was much worse, because there are many many other factors involved, most of which beyond our control, and we should recognize instead of always hoping this next feature will work (I'm not saying we should not work on whatever next feature, in case that wasn't clear).

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Yes there is a social, marketing element. Usually there is one or more community organizers that lead their respective communities.

I have yet to see an onboarding flow for community champions.

Ditto team is at least discussing solving the problems for the “champion” persona. Which is the correct path and focus.

Feature is not the correct focus.

I will plan to go through the mentioned tools, and evaluate through the lens of problem of community champion/organizer.

I think 90% of it is "right place, right time". Building all the apps and features and UX ensures the right place exists, but it's hard to manufacture timing. The best thing we can do is put ourselves in the best possible position for when there is another catalyst event.

That includes:

1. Have a variety of apps with a variety of features - why not? Each one is a new opportunity to be the "right place" to the right community.

2. Begin courting Nostr-friendly community leaders and onboarding them as test cases, and respond to feedback (Ditto is in this stage now)

3. Spot the opportunities. It's normally something social/political that drives entire communities off of one platform and onto another, not features. These social conflicts are often about censorship or leadership, which Nostr is in a prime position to solve.

4. Marketing! Get the word out so that when something happens that causes a community to be looking for the new "right place", they choose Nostr. This also includes expanding our community connections so that when an opportunity occurs, we have people inside/tangental to that community already who can help steer them to Nostr.

nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 how can we get nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 working full time to “sell” nostr to community champions, and help guide them through onboarding?

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These are all spot on and I hope we can tackle some of them with upcoming initiatives.

We've missed a few events because we were not ready. I hope we can be ready for the next one.