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The biggest challenge I see is monetization. We’ve got brilliant developers working on the protocol and talented content creators joining. But if they do not get monetized, they won’t be able to stick around. A man’s gotta eat end of the day.

Centralized giants like Google and Facebook offer users pennys on the dollar while selling their data. Unfortunately rampant ignorance of the latter allows this system to work.

We need to come up with some sleek roundabout way to attract and, more importantly, retain users while staying true to the ethos of #Nostr.
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Valentino Giudice 1y ago

> But if they do not get monetized, they won’t be able to stick around.

Most "content creators" on Reddit, 4chan, Hacker News don't earn shit, and haven't earned shit on Twitter for most of the time, yet all of these platforms are used.

Videos are different. YouTube hosts many videos which require a lot of effort to make, and are made by teams of highly skilled people, which channels run by company who have them as their main activities. But Nostr isn't a video platform. Most media is merely linked, not even stored in any decentralized way (which would be the purpose of Nostr) and no more "on Nostr" than anything else one types a link to.

What users need is to interact in a pleasant way, as peers, sharing memes and information. I hope communities will succeed, maybe thanks to Reddit being criticized for the excessive moderation, a platform which used to be a free speech open source one.

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Tony 1y ago

I was mostly referring to the devs. Content creators can sell merch or monetize in some other ways.