feels like we’re in a lull.
how to we bring more adoption and new communities to Nostr?
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Share more normie stuff?
#footstr didn't work. We must move on to the next fetish.
I'd take the opposite position. I believe #footstr DID work.
It was hashtag findable and created engagement, at least of the people that are here.
Same as #plebchain and #coffeechain.
These are exactly the things I'm talking about when I say a user filtered view. Lete rapidly go between #footstr and #coffeechain and #hugstr without having to manually search for those hashtags in my client
Sorry. My position on this was a shitpost or sarcasm. 🤙🏻 I love the different hashtags we've been using the last month or so. I promote many of them throughout every week. 🫂 If we wish to #grownostr we must continue to diversify our content.
Get big pornstars who've been deplatformed onto Nostr. Their fans will follow…
Stay humble Stack notes
Nostr marketplace. Correct me if I’m wrong but there still is none
nudity, you'll start me follows 😂
Don’t think we are in a lull. The hype for the early adopters is over, but then the slow gradual climb of the non believers is happening. I’m seeing lots of new people every week on here. Was no different in the early Internet days. Would much rather it take time and everything is right before too many of them show up and walk away because things aren’t perfect yet. Just gotta be patient.
We need non-bitcoin ways of onboarding new users. I tried purple pulling Kelsey Hightower last night on bluesky and he won’t even read nip01 because he saw that nostr is associated with bitcoin. He’s one of several people I’ve tried purple pulling who won’t try it out because of the bitcoin connection. We seriously need to brainstorm ways of getting normies here.
Communities need a better way of finding each other.
I have seen people using the badges as a way of managing communities, as all people having the badge can be followed with one click.
Diversity of content will be key, once it stops being about Nostr and becomes about everything it will be easier. the message should become « look what I have seen ON nostr », as opposed to « come and have a look at Nostr ».
Exclusive high quality content is always the key, that and porn of course.
Communicate about the happenings on the shitcoin socials and why direct value for value is good for you. Promote building and community and nostr culture 🫂🤙☕️😃🫶🏻⚡️🥳
I have been sharing #[2] https://www.heynostr.com which is a great storyline, simple and digestible.
#[3] #grownostr hashtag is great for connecting new users with diverse backgrounds. Merging these things with #[5] conversation builds community in a different way. Ideas come easier through two way conversations and good place to share and build.
We need more videos, podcasts, memes, and other stuff to help communicate.
I think it’s just going to happen organically. Just keep posting content and the right ppl will show up.
Bitcoin and Nostr will find you, when you are ready.
I love all the discussion and debate about nostr on nostr, but probably important for us all to talk about other things as well.
Hard to defeat the algo monsters. Dopamine hits. Zaps are a form of it TBF.
Could help with engagement?
- Marketplace and trust meters
- Original Nostr only/first content creation
- Algos 😬
- Stay humble. Post notes.
There's nothing inherently wrong with dopamine hits.
When people receive a like, a reply, a quote reply of their post, a boost or a zap these are all forms of acknowledgement that you are being not only seen, but someone found value in it. That's a good thing.
What's wrong is force feeding people content based on the following when the recipient isnt explicitly asking for it...
- who wrote it
- how many likes, zaps, replies it has
- the topic it's about
Yes everyone wants to feel love and belonging. The issue can be that algos may push one to a negative space as negative emotions engage people more than positive ones. Genetic and hard to overcome.
Then, there's the avoidance of others as online engagement becomes more fulfilling.
The Social Dilemma.
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I’ve been meaning to post in Women Who Code and other communities. Diversity among builders ✨ will bring new perspectives and crack open thought bubbles
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Go into these communities (online & in-person) and teach them about #nostr and how it could benefit them. 🤙🏻
Add client features that provide usability.
- enhanced reactions
- non sat based polling
- robust search (filters sent to relays can do a lot and hardly any clients leverage it)
- local filtered views (user managed by keyword/topic, private or public lists)
- local mark as read
More gamification options
- more badge issuance (not just one offs, but time, thresholds)
- metric reporting on count of posts written, posts replied to, reactions sent/recv by type, zaps sent/recv
More feeds to get started and keep going. More then just the firehouse of global, there should be targeted topics which gets back to user filtered views
Keep bringing creators. Maybe not exclusive, but also posting on here. #AlsoOnNostr
When people come, they want something to interact with. Interacting with other people directly is the strong base feature. Having content for people to consume and then interact around is an important layer 2.
We should try to get creators to post their content on here in addition to their regular places. They don’t have to be exclusive to here. When one of their community people tries out nostr for the first time and sees familiar content, it won’t feel empty or foreign. It’ll feel like a new home.
Eventually, if this plays out like many of us think, all content will be transmitted over nostr first.
#grownostr
I have been excited to bring my content here. It has spurred me to write again. However, it does seem to have tapered off a little. Don’t know I have been here to long.
Gotta bring the nerds here, the devs, sysadmins, data bros
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I won't talk on nostr community as a whole, whether it is in a lull or not. I just want to speak on my own experience as this has been on my mind lately.
Me personally when I started on nostr a few weeks ago, it was fresh and exciting. I felt like there was always something new and was able to be on here for hours at a time, posting my own original content or commenting on others.
Then it all started to feel a bit samey. It was the same people talking about the same-ish things. I felt like things were slowing down. I refreshed and refreshed but nothing new and exciting was coming up.
I realized that I had fallen into the social media dopamine trap. If Twitter is soda, then Nostr is juice. Juice is better for you, but you still shouldn't have a lot of it. It's still a ton of sugar. I drank way too much of it way too fast and I was crashing.
These days, I'm on nostr less. I curate my feeds and follows to see what I want. My goal is to spend more quality time here but less time overall. It has worked out much better and makes nostr feel fresh every time I use it.
What if we had different clients catered to different niches such as photos or videos
To your point, I think we need something even more:
Clients for specific communities.
There could be look and act like normal websites without ever using the word “nostr”.
Nostr is the invisible layer. We should design apps to connect humans with each other.
Just as no one knows what SMTP is (but uses it every day), most people will never know what “nostr” is. But they will use it every day.
Exactly, what if these clients simply stated “powered by Nostr”, the user can go about using the app as normal and if struck with curiosity they can seek info on what Nostr is if they wish
No, I think even adding that phrase is detrimental. No one needs to know. It doesn’t need to be advertised. No email client ever says “powered by SMTP”.
It will be obvious to those who need to know, invisible to those who don’t.
Just have fun with it it will happen if the product is good.
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