I’ve been hearing this mantra repeated for the past two years lol
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Are you saying things got worse in the last 24 months?
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Appreciate the articulation, but I disagree.
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You seem preoccupied with (normie) user adoption. That is not unreasonable but personally think this is not the way it is going to play out.
It makes far more sense to me that Nostr will take the margins first and encircle the center before capturing that center. The super power is in the interoperability throughout the variety of usecases; go for the niches.
I, and my sense is a small but minimal viable size group is already at the point of there being no reason to ever go 'back', and our options/usecases only grows over time.
Retention among normies/masses is terrible, but i expect it to be such.
Realize that Nostr constitutes a whole new paradigm that appearently most devs dont even seem to comprehend (fully) yet. We are, in fact, still early
“We’re early”—this message has been part of the narrative for some Bitcoiners who moved here two years ago. But I challenge you: try onboarding non-Bitcoin normies to the clients and watch how quickly they leave. Then ask them why they left. That will give you a much clearer picture, rather than simply repeating the same mantra that people like Gigi are pushing here.
I just gave you the reason for why we are early; even a lot of developers don't fully grasp things yet.
I also told you i dont care about those non-Bitcoin normies; ofcourse they much rather stick to the environment that has a bazillion $ of funding and decades of development history. Where is the value add for those people, there is not any. At best they feel the current platforms getting shittier, but that is a push, not a pull, and for now same-old-same-old-but-with-bullshitmarketing stuff like bluesky will get those people before we do, and then fail regardless.
We are not building a social media alternative, we are building a whole new web, a whole new compute paradigm, its all new, its all different and it all has to be figured out.
Tiktok blew up in no-time because it is the endstage of a paradigm; the bestest fanciest horsebuggy.
Nostr wont win by competing on those terms.
