I need tips on how to convince my mother to use Nostr. What would be your approach? 🧑

#nostr #asknostr #plebchain

Reply to this note

Please Login to reply.

Discussion

You would bring your mother to this place? She might disown you. Be careful πŸ‘€πŸ‘€πŸ‘€

Honestly speaking from my experience and my own mom .. some generations will never adapt to new technologies. There’s a reason of why boomers like Facebook more.

I was thinking about that a few days ago. I can't imagine any normie that is 70, or above, wanting to deal with Nostr. I hope I'm proven wrong, many times over.

I mean, she is just turning 60, but has many medical conditions so I guess her "real age" would be something around 65-70.

I think your best bet is to set everything up for her, to make her experience as simple as possible.

Yes, you are right about that.

Get her to understand bitcoin first. Honestly

True, told her all about it, but it is hard to grasp for boomers. πŸ˜ƒ

For sure. Persistence with humility is key I think

Whatever client feels the better, although making sure is connected to semi to fully enclosed relays only, β€”as in paid relays or domestic self hosted relaysβ€”. Key may be going over the lines of moderation and trust going together, hand in hand

Refuse to communicate with her unless it's through a Nostr client. That's how my friends got me on FB. 😜

That would be a way. Is there a Nostr type chat-only kinda thing?

0xchat is mostly a chat app. I think I remember the dev getting frustrated last year that no one was using it, so he started adding features to make it more of a social client. It works well though.

Thank you, I will check out that one for sure!

What would her use case be?

Seeing my posts. Have been thinking of deleting Instagram and it's the last one I have connection with my mother and she sees my stories about gigs, music and travels, and she does interact 😁

Well that's a good reason πŸ‘

Can't you install the app for her?

Besides the keys, it works like another social app πŸ˜‡

Buy mother a laptop with only nostr installed and permanently turned on. Then send video calls every day.

Tell her it's the easiest way to send tiny amounts of money to grandkids.