It's hard to over-emphasise how impressive this is... From a user perspective, it's clearly got the potential to be a 10x on the status quo socials
I am intrigued how the equity position of nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg grows over time, in that the moat for this type of product feels quite small, with competition in clients fierce
Let the games begin! I can't wait to see how this develops over time
Good try, Jake, I'll stick to Coracle/Amethyst.
Just joshing around
I was rather more meaning in terms of NOSTR in general, ie the 10x
But the competition with clients is a big one. How will they make money? Your reaction being a great case in point
Are there any models that have worked other than advertising? Or subscriptions?
I'm not quite sure how Craigslist supports itself despite being among the top 10 web pages.
Wikipedia asks for money.
What if we looked at the market for social media and then proportion it out according to the type of user and number.
So maybe there will be a Facebook-type clien, Google type, Craigslist type, and new ones like Tik tok that pop up for kids.
For me I use Facebook as a repository of contacts from college plus access to family pictures. I would have deleted FB if it wasnt for browsing Marketplace.
I use LinkedIn as little as possible and mainly just as a professional version of Facebook.
Twitter is my news app.
And Nostr is my vision board space.
So maybe Primal can capture Facebook/Insta/ Twitter all in one.
If Nostr is a protocol like the Internet, maybe it turns into web browsing difference.
Firefox, Chrome,Safari, Microsoft Edge.
However I think there may be more differentiation for Nostr since it's a social layer..it will probably mimic the amount of social apps. News, dating, professional, family, friends, banking.
I don't know if I like the idea of my banking app knowing what Im doing in dating world... So maybe there will be certain profiles that are just for certain clients. 🤔
I'm more confused about how it might look now than when I started writing this.
It will be Nostr that competes with all the legacy stuff, not primal per say
In terms of sharing between bank and dating, the key here is you control your data, so you’ll be able to choose to share you social graph with whenever you want (or don’t want)
Isn’t everything I do on Nostr public and revealing about me if I am my actual self on Nostr? So I may own my data and choose my client, but my social graph is public, my notes are public, and that info can be gathered. Or are you meaning that I can anonymize my account and stay private? This is something I’ve struggled with about the protocol and its clients and how my data works in conjunction with freedom and privacy on a transparent protocol.
Good points. There will be publicly available data you create that you cannot stop people from seeing. Indeed you put it there
But I’ve seen a health startup pitch the idea of Nostr as a tool to reveal some personal data but not all in relation to your health history
So I see a future in which your nsec helps to control who gets to see what about you (at your choice and o some degree)
