anyways I’m not trying to be negative here, I’m just saying that the onboarding experience for normies can be extremely frustrating. It’s already way better than it was a year ago.
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Can confirm. I'm said normie and there's definitely a learning curve. I learn best by reading on my own and trying different clients. What I like about this is I only get info from people I follow, not people some dumbass algo says I need to see. It's kind of like back in the olden days where you have to do the work to find stuff you like instead of having it force fed. Much better vibe on Nostr. More people will come once somebody dumbs everything down to make it not such a struggle for normies to get involved.
But, then you'll have soccer moms and "influencers", total dipshits, Karen's, and a various collection of dumb asses coming over. Not looking forward to that but I won't have them shoved in my face unless they seek me out.
having normies on sounds good to me. The best internet was early Twitter era when all the old Internet personalities weren’t banned in the same places normies posted, and they were all shocked and appalled at being exposed to internet culture
can nostr be used for filesharing like how people are using discord?
On the relays themselves it isn’t optimal. You’d have to come up with some hybrid system with IPFS where you’re serving the files off of your own computer or something, and even then that probably isn’t what you want. Relays are going to reject large files most likely. Nothing much bigger than the tiny 7 second videos that are on diVine, at least for the time being. Definitely not generalized filesharing.
indexing magnet links or ipfs addresses to files is surely to blow up the population around here
I don't think that’s particularly useful, no, because people aren’t generally socializing at the same place they find torrents or whatever. Or maybe I am wrong.
that's how 4chan did it, people would hang out on /v/ all day and then go to torrent stuff on the secret torrent board. I see it on fitgirl-repacks as well, people asking for help installing games. Or on 1337 when you have some software repackaged by a jeet and no one understands how to bypass the liscence. On steam don't people discuss games before buying?
Okay well I don’t know, I’ve never posted on 1337x or fit girl-repacks and steam is a different thing altogether, but the point is that these are filesharing sites with comments sections. I’m not going to a filesharing site to find personalities to subscribe to. I don’t see how it is related. But Nostr is an open protocol and you can build anything on it