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Are you suggesting nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx is "scapegoating for entertainment & likes to survive the relevance bear market."?

If so, I don't get that sense. Seems more like he is seeing a potential future, that he'd like to avoid by voicing his concerns to others that may not have thought of that potential path.

mcshane 2y ago

I think a lot of people in the space behave similarly. Spending a lot of time and political attention on a protocol they disdain, while ostracizing some “other”.

It’s a well proven model for attention, see Cory for example, and sometimes they’re spot on. But I don’t find productive in this case. It reminds me of disdain for billionaires a lot of liberals have. People who pay to use twitter are not the problem, that they believe there’s no viable alternative is.

The solution is double down iterating and improving a strong competitor.

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elsat 2y ago

Regarding nostr, every day I see newbies commenting “ah this is only for the coin people”.

Need to keep improving #onboarding and making it friendlier for newbies.

Twitter can eventually trip over as it occasionally does and has been. If nostr onboarding is not ready, temporary twitter stumbles won’t matter.

RayRay 2y ago

"People who pay to use twitter are not the problem, that they believe there’s no viable alternative is."

I missed it myself when I skimmed his writeup the first time. There is no mention of Nostr specifically in the piece, but the final line "freedom tech provides us options" is actually a link that leads to a writeup explaining Nostr. (Not sure if you clicked it)

Looks to me like he's trying to be provocative enough to get peoples attention while actually trying to help lead them to a viable alternative exactly as you suggested.