UX is king.
Privacy and decentralization are not features. They are architectural decisions that should just be there. Excusing bad UX by selling privacy will get you nowhere.
Users today don’t care about privacy or decentralization. We win by giving them the best UX which also happens to be private and decentralized.
they should just use twitter if they don't want privacy or decentralization, its much better and has better ux
Why not give them something better that also has privacy and decentralization?
WHAT DID THEY DO TO DESERVE IT
DID THEY EVEN ASK NICELY
Exactly. If they want to be the normies client thats fine but I'm not on nostr to jau the a twitter clone. I want my next cold. I want tor as an option. I want marketplace. I want zap splits. I want private PMs. They don't have shit on amethyst from a power user perspective.
I obviously agree about the importance of a good UX. But it cannot replace knowing and picking the right values (=features) in the first place.
A great UX should alleviate the pain that necessarily a new protocol introduce, and we should treat users with respect creating a dialogue around these values, don't just try to attract them with easy and appealing solutions. We win explaining what matters, why it matters, and offering good software that makes that obvious and enjoyable.
I agree. Privacy and decentralization is the reason why I chose to develop B2B software on top of Nostr.
My point is that if we want to win, we need to appeal to the regular user, and not just the forward looking user who is willing to put up with bad UX because of privacy gains.
Absolutely.
Nostr does not inherently have privacy. Why do people keep believing this myth?
Nostr is a cryptograhically confirmed public identity. It's almost the opposite of private.
You are right. I use gift wrapped events to add a layer of privacy. It’s not perfect but if relays only serve gift wrapped events to their intended recipient, it’s reasonably private
what if because of the decentralized architecture you can't build a UX as good as the centralized one? (according to some UX criteria)
what do you pick at this point?
Privacy and decentralization.
Developing B2B software on top of Nostr, with privacy and data sovereignty is hard, precisely because of the UX.
