Nostr Web Client

Town-square micro-blogging, aka Big World, is not the breakout use case for Nostr, just as consumer operating system was not the breakout use case for Linux (servers were).

Nostr won't hit serious numbers until the breakout use case is found, and when that happens town-square microblogging will take a relative back seat for some years, perhaps to return later. But on a positive note that breakout use case will be glorious.

Town-square microblogging is however a great genesis use case—something to get the ball rolling and keep it rolling until the breakout use case emerges from the quantum soup.

Self-slap for the mixed-metaphor.

Constant 1y ago

You are not wrong, but also missed the obvious which you might have arrived at if you'd stick to the metaphor;

You are saying the townssquare is not the breakout usecase, sure, but whatever 'establishment' get super popular is still connected to that square.

Thats what the square is; the center to all the shops, restaurants, cafes, theaters etc.

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Garbage nsec 1y ago

I get you. By town-square use cases I mean use cases that require a consistent global view—no matter how much we try to kid ourselves that they don't. (The whole town is out there in the square, you can see them all at once from the balcony). Use cases for which the bulk of today's users simply won't accept not knowing exactly how many followers they have, or likes their latest post has, and many other such things—again no matter how much we try to kid ourselves that such things should not be so important, or that we can get away with asking users to kindly grow up and go without them. For those use cases Nostr just isn't it. Anything Twitter-esque, basically.

For your sense of the word though, certainly yes, I agree that'll be key.