Nostr Web Client

Nostr challenge: find an up-to-date article that explains Nostr for someone who knows nothing about it and wants to know what it is (and uses Bluesky/Instagram/Facebook currently).

But without any BTC, protocol, free speech, censorship resistance etc. stuff. Just like you would explain Snapchat or similar product.

I could not find any with a quick googling. Nor I found any get started guide that was not filled with protocol etc talk.

Nostr. com, nost.how are all about tech. News coverage is mainly from last year and from those topical angles.

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charliesurf 1y ago

what is nostr without the protocol, etc. stuff?

petri 1y ago

Alternative to Facebook, Twitter and the rest.

charliesurf 1y ago

not really, nostr is the protocol... is like people trying to sell bitcoin to normies without talking about self custody, scarcity, money the state cannot control, etc. stuff

petri 1y ago

And it has and is a hard sell.

Gmail did not get mass adoption by talking about SMTP or other technical stuff. It gave the email on the go (away from your home/work desktop).

If Nostr wants to reach regular people it needs to speak their language. They don’t want to hear about protocols etc. They just want to talk to other people and use something for it that works.

If they are curious they will dig deeper but most are not. They don’t investigate how FB, Snap, IG or any other app really works.

My point was that I did not find a single article I could point to that would say try it, it’s fun, it works and it’s better for you than the alternatives. Here’s how you get started in no time, easy-peasy.