Nostr Web Client

I need a list of pubkeys to follow who are not Bitcoiners and are on Nostr and talk about things other than Bitcoin.

I don't mind even if they are leftists.

It'll be pretty hard to find even a single pubkey not either talking exclusively about Bitcoin and/or Nostr development, or regularly mixing in Bitcoin and/or Nostr develpoment with another topic that's ostensibly the focus.

Of those you do find, many will be bridged, manually cross-posting, inactive for months, or without substantial traction (more or less shouting into the void).

I spent a few weeks asking around and doing quite a lot of searching myself but couldn't turn up even a single npub that was (a) Nostr first (b) not mentioning Bitcoin and/or Nostr development beyond the occasional reference you'd naturally expect, and (c) showing an engaged discussion in the replies under each post and generally appearing to have an informed and loyal following here.

It's just the stage of the protocol right now, still early days. Other communities will come. And as for the question of whether the Nostr tech and ecosystem can support a vibrant community or not, the answer there is already a pretty emphatic yes.

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nitesh 1y ago 💬 2

Idk man, everytime someone tells me it's early days I'm like my patience is running out.

Garbage nsec 11mo ago

Yeah, early days for what is the question. I remember when Red Hat first came along with a half-decent GUI (well for linux, anyway) and on the back of that there was some buzz about Linux finally breaking through into the consumer operating system space, but it didn’t really happen, and people were like when is it ever going to happen, and then suddenly Linux did take off— but for servers, nothing to do with the consumer operating space.

I feel Nostr will be something like that, it's not going to take off for the thing people are waiting for it to take off for, but it'll still take off.

nitesh 11mo ago 💬 1

Linux took off for servers. People were telling me this is year of linux desktop for like 4-5 years now. It still totally sucks.

And I know it sucks because I use Linux everyday even though I have an M3 macbook pro in my closet. I'm an idiot.

Garbage nsec 11mo ago

Lol, that's an expensive closet stuffer.

Linux took off for servers, and that market kept it chugging along so that years later it was in a position to take off for Android. But yeah, it might never take off for desktop. Just like Nostr might never take off for the big world/town-square microblogging use case.

I think the use case that Nostr does eventually take off for could surprise. It'll be one that minimises the things the protocol doesn't have and might never have (global view, assured note deletion, compromised account recovery, forced-ad-view revenue, top-creator adoption, simple learning curve, etc.) just like the server use case minimised Linux's crappy graphics and other perceived shortcomings at the time. And, like servers, it'll bring in hard cash/coin.

Not sure really what that use case will be, but I feel Nostr has enough energy now to make it to the point where that use case emerges. Again like Linux's initial consumer hopes gave it enough energy to make it to Server Town, USA. Any guesses?