This seems like a pretty profound weakness in #nostr. Social media apps like Facebook, Twitter, etc. gained massive adoption because they were “free” to use. If your content gets deleted after a month because you aren’t paying money, I think this will definitely prevent mass adoption. Am I wrong? #asknostr #grownostr
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I like the fact that my notes eventually expire.
it is a feature.
Everyone used to complain that social media keeps everything forever and builds a profile on you. Atleast your pseudonym is ephemeral here...
FB and Twitter were given to you for free by the national security/intelligence state. You were the product from the beginning.
If you want to be the customer instead of the product, you gotta pay.
That said, most people are ok being the product.
Well said. I agree 100%.
But it seems to confirm what I’m saying. If most people are ok being the product, then why would #nostr see mass adoption?
I don’t know that it will. But if it does, I suspect it would be because people can interact with the protocol without even choosing a keypair.
What do you mean without choosing a key pair?
They don’t need a nostr identity (keypair) to interact with nostr content
How would that even be possible? That’s a core part of how the protocol works…
I can share a nostr note with a video with a normie via iMessage and they aren’t hassled to create an account like the are on IG, FB, TikTok, and Twitter. They can watch that video without any friction. That, in my mind, is the best advertising for the protocol
That’s not really interacting though. So you mean they can read content, but not post, chat, or react, correct?
Semantics. Swap “experience” or “consume” in. I meant that there’s nobody telling them to fork over info to participate. That’s humongous.
Is there such thing as a Nostr note with a video? Notes are just text, afaik videos are still hosted by a single media provider.
That infrastructure is being built
Point is I share shit from nostr non stop and the normies are grateful they can see without signing up
Huh. I wondered if that happens. So basically I just copy the browser link and this is visible for people who do not have an app client? But access through browser?
Sorry if you already shared all this, haven't scrolled through the thread yet.
Depends on your client what link they give you and how it looks in a browser, but yes, any website can display a nostr note, it’s all open source that’s what’s so amazing