Nostr Web Client

I have questions!

- I’m looking at the “+1” scores here and there which suggests a plan to calculate retention scores based on data. Relays, stats.nostr.band, something like that?

- So far, it the largest inflows of new users have been catalyzed by something external (Jack’s donation, Elon’s ban, etc.) that brings attention to nostr, and then a percentage (no idea how many) end up sticking around

- Anecdotally, I’m here because Derek mentioned it on stackchain Twitter and I joined because it looked fun and Bitcoin-y. I stayed because of the quality of interaction with people that just never seemed to exist in other social spaces, along with a sense of wonder and excitement that it may actually work.

But none of my friends or coworkers who have created an npub have logged in after their first day or two, go my knowledge. Namely because censorship-resistant, Bitcoin-enabled, freedom tech stuff isn’t a priority for most of them. So it seems like it’s still a self-selecting audience, at least for a social media use case.

- Incentives for advocates is an interesting question. “Use my ref link” is so often associated with cringeworthy “influencer” content that I’d steer clear, personally, but the flip side is that we know it works sometimes….

- If there were better tools to understand more about where new users come from, that could be valuable, but again, with our philosophically/ideologically freedom- and privacy-conscious user base, I’d bet that a nostr client loaded up with Google analytic tags would be a non starter.

I have more questions than answers, it seems 🫡

ManiMe 1y ago

>”If there were better tools to understand more about where new users come from, that could be valuable, but again, with our philosophically/ideologically freedom- and privacy-conscious user base, I’d bet that a nostr client loaded up with Google analytic tags would be a non starter.”

Thanks for your interest. Nostr’s is free NOT because of walls around its data, but BECAUSE of the lack of them. In fact, nostr data is THE MOST transparent, accessible, trackable, and aggregatable data of any social network. The fact that everybody or anybody can host and transport the data is what keeps it free from being contained or controlled.

I know most people even in nostr don’t get this, but we will. Algorithms are not our problem. Black boxes and lack of choice is the problem with the search and feed algorithms of big social. Nostr will demonstrate that freedom to choose your search and feed algorithms does more to secure privacy than keeping data locked up in walled gardens.

If and as more people see this, I think a transparent and openly developed metric for tracking user interactions on nostr will be the least of our problems to tackle.

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