That was just an example of the marketing strategy, an inspiration for other projects that wish to promote Nostr in specific communities like college campuses.
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I think they are not an example to follow tbh. I don't think this marketing bribery strategy would work outside of Bitcoinery circles, I'm not even sure it works all that well inside these circles either. And worst case scenario is it actually works and cements nostr as being an irrelevant bitcointwitter2 silo
A lot of people not interested already in Bitcoin consider it "crypto scam" and it works as a deterrent, not something to attract them.
:) Are there any ideas or ways to tell people about Nostr that you like?
I think you probably need a budget, reaching out to pro-bitcoin people but who are outside of the bitcointwitter-only bubble, people with actual reach and followers know for Other Topics predominantly. These people do exist, they have shows and whatnot, they can be convinced to or be sponsored.
In a more organic way tho, I think bitch@ may potentially bring people in. People in bitch@ meshes forming communities/forums utilising a nostr client which facilitates that.
I can see that happening.
Or a client that is a nostr client, people may not even know it's a nostr client. It has a large enough group of people interested. #alexandria for eg.
I literally know nothing..but I'm hopeful lol. I just don't think there's much hope in the bitcointwitter2 strategy.
I believe Nostr will find its way to the right people, maybe through channels that will be surprising to us.. maybe some celebrity will fire it up or something 😁
