I feel like there are actually a fair amount of people on the sidelines waiting for nostr to expand. Which is quite hopeful.
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Contain your anger please, it's the most common nostr complaint lol
"eclectic community" ? We got people posting shoes on their heads
He thinks all bitcoiners are the same.
Because he is an idiot.
I'm not sure that's what he's saying. I think he's saying there's not much of a presence of other subcultures (posting) here (in significant numbers). It's something a lot of people say about nostr. It's pretty fair imo.
We got homesteaders who use bitcoin, chefs who use bitcoin, musicians who use bitcoin, painters who use bitcoin, software devs who use bitcoin...
We got everybody.
Yo-yo tricksters, sky divers, ham radio operators, scuba divers, swing dancers, authors and bee keeers.
ALL OF US USE BITCOIN.
Sounds like he should get onboard already.
It's not really like this tho is it? Yes we have all these groups, but would you say there is a lively community of skydivers, talking about skydiving in-depth, consistently and meaningfully?
The overall nostr vibe seems to be bitcointwitter chatroom -style posts and not topic posts. That is the main impression it gives too, which is why most people complain about this.
I do think Homesteading and Meshtastic are way ahead of other other subcultures/circles. I think you could invite someone interested in either of those and they would find a fair amount here in terms of community and conversations.
I don't think you could say the same for skydiving, or many many other topics.
We just need groups aka Facebook or Reddit
We got that with chachi.chat
Everyone’s building chat groups. I want forum style posting. I have never found the stream of conscience chat format useful
Genuine question as a non-dev. How difficult is it to make a nostr clone of this?
I actually really like this style of forum. Or phpBB.
"I don't like the protocol because I don't like the people that actually are using and live testing it" is a WILD fucking take.
I mean, I make fun of mastodon and bluesky users, but first and foremost, both protocols allow some jannie to curbstomp your account.
Hmm I sorta think that makes sense as a reason not to join in posting here tho, no? The predominant monotopic community and lack of noticeable efforts to expand? He says it's 'the perfect protocol' too, not that he doesn't like it.
I'm reading it as quite positive review actually
We all made the same sacrifice coming here. I'm not gonna build a community for them. It just comes off as entitled to a welcome mat and a warmed up glass of brandy waiting for them.
Furthermore, bitcoiners and nostr are not some freakish coincidence. It makrs sense that the people who sought censorship resistance are the first homesteaders.
Yes totally, the hope is that the venn diagrams of interest keep adding more circles. Meshtastic, devs, permaculture all have a close overlap with Bitcoiners and will keep (hopefully) being in more 'offtopic' conversation/communities. I think you could invite a permaculture person here who had zero exposure to bitcoin and they would find a solid crew. Ideally you'd be able to do this with more and more topics.
lol the guy got a nostr account but too chicken to post that on nostr
It’s not a shame bc it wouldn’t have been born if not for boring Bitcoiners.
You either have an incentive to use the tech or you don’t.