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Uncomfortable Nostr Reality check:

I've tried to Nostr-pill all my YouTube friends (some of them have incredible amounts of subs), but none of them care about the censorship resistance or decentralization. Even though they know Nostr exists, they have no incentive yet to come here. Their audience would follow them anywhere, but they need the tools to create community communications.

It's a sad reality, but it all comes down to usability, UX, and ultimately the easiness of paying and signing up for the community. None of these can afford to have a sign-up problem or issues with someone being interested in joining the community/their platform. It needs to work flawlessly and feel and look professional. Some of them charge $3-5k a year just to get access to this closed space, and people are willing to pay for this.

Another big pain point is community management. All of these YouTubers create these platforms to help their audience have a safe place to communicate with each other and build their own tribe.

Nostr is capable of facilitating all of this - we're just not there yet. We need to somehow invest so much more into UX and design.

All of this will come when the time is due. So, knowing that all of this is possible and that ultimately, Nostr will be powering most of these via the social graph, is what makes me extremely bullish. But also, let's not get ahead of ourselves and expect them to come already.

The UX and features are not there yet for these people. I am more than happy to help anybody trying to make this a reality. I want nothing more than having these people join Nostr. But I also totally understand their pain points. So, if you're a dev or a company working on this, please feel free to reach out - I can tell you all the issues they told me. Or just tell me how to best do this; maybe I can jump on a podcast so the issues are open-sourced for the whole community to hear.

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Kyle Huber 1y ago

It’s a good observation, I also assumed censorship resistance would be a primary reason to shift towards nostr, but if you’ve never been censored or agree with most consensus narratives you don’t have a pain point around that specifically. However, as you articulate so well in your nostr social media documentary, most people are FED UP with the addictive mindless scrolling and heavy advertising. 1 in 4 posts is an ad on Instagram…

For folks who don’t value privacy/censorship resistance you could take the angle of owning your social graph, not being subject to algorithmic changes, the engaged community and the ability to natively zap⚡️ sats. Fountain is web2 platform that helps bridge the gap a bit, especially if they already have an RSS feed. In the end, as you know, creators have limited bandwidth so if they dont see the value there’s no reason to distract from the bread and butter on YouTube.

Nostr is great now but fast forward 2-3 years with the tools and projects coming down the pipeline, it will be a much easier pitch 👌

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