Nostr Web Client

Android is open source (AOSP). You can run it without google (I recommend GrapheneOS). And there are multiple app providers like Play Store, Aurora, and F-Droid. Plus users can side-load.

The Google Play Store could potentially ban nostr apps, but Android couldn't, and we could always give instructions on how to load them.

Leo Wandersleb 2y ago 💬 8

Google is trying hard to lock users in with many tactics and none of the alternative stores has more than 1% of Google's market. If you want reach, you have to somehow play ball with Google.

If the app is controversial, it will not only be banned by Google but also by Samsung and all the other big brands.

FDroid is cool but very very niche. Probably more apps get installed from the provider's web page than from FDroid.

The discoverability provided by Play Store is essential to most app developers.

When Nostr Appstr app publishing through nostr?

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Mike Dilger ☑️ 2y ago

If you accept "If you want reach, you have to somehow play ball with Google" and Google bans your app, then you lose outright. The only possible winning strategies is to figure out how that statement is wrong. I'm not saying I have the answer. But I'm not willing to concede defeat.

Mike Dilger ☑️ 2y ago

I think a well written and motivating set of instructions on how to sideload could do a lot: "If you want to find the real Internet where all the smart hackers are, without Google getting in your face, you'll need to do a tiny bit of hacking yourself. Actually not even hacking, just a few settings tweaks really. Don't worry, we will guide you through, and this doesn't void any of your warrantees. First you need to enable developer options..."

Leo Wandersleb 2y ago

In China or Iran, all mildly technical people know how to work around things with VPNs. Google and Apple just provide enough entertainment that the masses won't go out of their way to find the real signal.

unnamed 2y ago

People who want to fight censorship are not waiting for Santa Claus to come and save them.

They are pro active to set themselves free.

So id your market is of this type of people, don't expect them to be too lazy.

Now you also want the market of people who are lazy enough not to fight against censorship. How does it fit the product itself?

Cpt. Charisma 2y ago

Time for a Noster phone?

signal_and_rage 2y ago

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unnamed 2y ago

Apple fan boys would never buy non Apple