Nostr Web Client

Post.news is shutting down, it was a well funded alternative with a focus on news with micropayments. They had a growth hack where you needed to post a link to your post.news account from twitter in to activate your account.

My take away that when you build a social media app as closed source and centralized it can be expensive to build and run. When the money goes away it can’t just survive on its own supported by the community.

Nostr would survive and grow if we lost all the funding going in to Nostr from investors and donations from nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m. The clients and relays are open source and cheap to run. Media servers like nostr.build cost money to run but can be community funded, and if it goes down we’ll be able to switch to alternatives.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/19/24135011/twitter-alternative-post-news-shutdown

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Derek Ross 1y ago

I never used Post, but it sounds like we could turn this into a chance at picking up some devs if they'd be interested in building social tools once again.

rabble 1y ago

Yeah we should do some promotion / outreach because we’ve got a bunch of good long form nostr apps and the journalism accelerator starting soon.

https://www.nos.social/journalism-accelerator

retired npub 1y ago

These days, finding a value proposition that generates true network effect is difficult stuff

And Post.news was really slick

I wonder how BlueSky and Threads are really doing

#grownostr

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ΛM 1y ago

You're more optimistic than most, that's good to hear 🫡

ManiMe 1y ago

I agree.

Moss 1y ago

post.new is just a fusion of Twitter's already powerful features. its user base completely overlaps with Twitter users, so it cannot survive. the same will be true for mastodon and bluesky. what makes nostr different is the integration of Bitcoin and lightning network protocols, which is nostr's most solid foundation.

bitcoin is nost's largest niche market. The future of nostr is exciting.

retired npub 1y ago

Mastodon will survive because FOSS community calls it home

the axiom 1y ago

and you are an AI

retired npub 1y ago

What?

retired npub 1y ago

Another tree fell silently in the forest ... https://artifact.news

rabble 1y ago

Artifact’s AI algorithms sucked. You read or like one article and then all of a sudden thats all you get. Also writing something about articles you share and being more intentional about what you want to share is important. A fully automated system is a bit soulless.