Nostr Web Client

bro, sorry to be blunt but your “idea” is stupid. clients aren’t going to implement a new note kind just so relays can spam their users with ads. if anything clients need to be better at removing spam.

I think there’s lots of good ideas and if you took a second to read through my timeline that would be obvious, but here’s a couple:

- “uncle jim” relays like wss://anon.computer where some tech savvy person whitelists their friends and family

- dropbox model: free but you get bugged over dm when your “storage space” is running out and asked to upgrade

- the pay to post relays we already have

Andrew 2y ago

and the last 20+ years of social network data has shown that while enthusiast/heavy users of social networks are willing to pay for the service, the vast majority of casual users have zero interest in doing so, and are willing to put up with ads as the compromise.

So if we want nostr to expand beyond enthusiast users into a global social network the size of twitter, hoping casual users will miraculously be open to paying isn’t gonna cut it.

Btw, if you’re going to so quickly resort to lack of social awareness with “nope bad answer” and “stupid idea”, then feel free to ignore my posts and keep the autistic outbursts out the replies.

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j 2y ago

lol

Moss 2y ago

Agree

balas 2y ago

the difference in nostr is the ability to not see ads is just switch to another client, so the ad ridden client needs to have a really powerful set of features that no one else has to be able to get away with it, in other words, social media ads are dead, what you'll actually see more is "influencers" shilling shit, because they have the audience. so IMO, the model will switch to full on endorsement ads, and those will popup on your feed because you follow those accounts.

Andrew 2y ago

yeah, I can see things like that, getting a percentage of zaps sent to posts, referral links, when products are shared, etc