Nostr Web Client

The Q3 2023 Twitter Migration report is out: https://www.deweysquare.com/digital/twitter-migration-report/

It shows Nostr is holding steady after Threads tsunami. We’ve got users, interest, and development but we’re stuck in a bitcoin / crypto echo chamber. The problem isn’t the tech directly so much as culture. How can we cultivate millions of communities with their own values and norms. Sure they can use lightning for payments, but mostly people won’t be here because they believe in nostr or bitcoin. In fact for both to succeed we need folks who don’t care about the underlying tech at all.

mutatrum 2y ago

“The Nostr platform, which our scans found holding a steady but small following as an X alternative, may be unknown to those who are not engaged in the cryptocurrency development communities. It is challenging to measure Nostr using web traffic because it's a decentralized social media platform. It's also debatable even inside the Nostr communities as to how to track Nostr from within the network in order to identify unique human accounts rather than spam or bots. We will keep watching the Nostr space, especially looking to see if it breaks out of its “crypto niche” in which it now lives.“

The Developer Migration:

“As Musk and Yaccarino continue to express the ambition that X will become a single “Everything App” — and moved in that direction by making it more difficult for outside developers to work with the platform — third-party application developers have moved to greener pastures.

In addition to this more developer-unfriendly environment, there is an increasing trend and interest by developers in the emerging “open social web” and developing “open social protocols” such as ActivtyPub (which powers Mastodon), the AT Protocol (that powers Bluesky), and to a lesser extent the Nostr protocols.”

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