you might want to talk to the bitcoiners funding the development of clients and the influencoors that dominate especially the primal feed about this issue.
like, you know, building other kinds of things than twitter clones.
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Primal is a client which should only be recommended to bitcointwitter people tbh. And even then I wouldn't
the audience of nostr-as-really-decentralized-social-media is a pretty small one and most of the vocal nostriches have been oblivious to what this actually means.
the audience for nostr-as-a-base-for-social-media in a general sense like how slack and discord and telegram are social media (as in, without the global feed of twitter/facebook/instagram) hasn't been even approached yet. there are a few of us who see this use case but most of us don't have funding behind us.
i think that the architecture of nostr could be improved, i talk extensively about it and have done some work on some ways to improve it, but i think that in practice you can deploy the technology already, if you can find the selling point of the benefit of the simple, and easily replicated model of nostr relay, which mostly means designing various kinds of consensus protocol between nodes, has yet to be done.
users don't care about the fact that their services are decentralized. what they care about is reliability, stability and those are things that nostr can deliver better, but not without these additional protocols to make redundant and fast content delivery.
it will take time.
the days of global feed, advertising monetised influencoor laden social media are coming to an end. people will like having the old style subject-specific forums of the 00s and 10s coming back. influencoor fatigue is a real thing, and will only continue to get worse as the tech reaches more people who were not interested in the popularity contest and TV substitute style.
It's a Bitcoin community client. I think that's fine, but I'm glad people are realizing that there's more than one community.
If amathyst had it's own dedicated media storage like primal i really think nostr would have about 100 times more active users
primal is the best multi platform app for non technical people
if you think primal is the problem maybe you should look in the mirror
it's a parody of xitter
i think it's a problem that you chime in to whack-a-mole about why the use of nostr as a basis for a global central discussion system, and you don't care about the fact that there is more defense against censorship that happens when people can use a tool to easily spin up a system to have discussions like the old school BBS and are actively only funding this kind of work and don't get it that this is an extremely narrow way to use such a broadly applicable protocol.
defending primal and their use of a single cache relay network is unacceptable if you are serious about decentralization.
implying opensats only funds “twitter clones” is a lazy lie
https://opensats.org/blog/2024-year-in-review
Primal is slick, it works etc etc. it is also heavily a bitcointwitter expat platform, I wouldnt recommend it to people who do not want the bitcointwitter experience elsewhere. The recommendations and sidebar are very much all gear towards that market and is extremely off-putting to anyone outside of that (it's even off-putting to some bitcointwitter people tbh lol)
did you have experience with the fediverse? people who are naive to it are guided towards mastodon instances centered around leftism and furry art, and they are led to believe that this is the whole network. it takes patience and extra effort to find the parts of the network that don't run mastodon or care for leftism.
I never looked at mastodon/fedi
i looked at it years ago and there was a flurry of posts written in georgian. pretty text but i don't understand a word of it.
now i know a bit more about how this all works, practically all of these things that seem to end up being commie ghettos are just yet another initiative of Soros and co.
this is the main reason i'm on nostr. it's not full of commies. ok, some plenty bitcoin twitter cult drones but at least no commies.
Primal is a twitter clone.
It's the best app for twitter users.
I want to onboard Facebook users, tiktok users, YouTube users, Instagram users, Snapchat users etc.
I don't know anyone in real life that uses
twitter.
Everyone I convinced to download primal has hated it because it's a twitter clone and none of them are twitter users.
Primal is great for former twitter users. It's not great for anyone else and primal makes it difficult to find people worth following compared to any of the other clients I've tried.
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Thats why I dont use Primal. Too pushy with the influencers just trying to get their bag.
Same as BigTech just with a Bitcoin sticker on it.
We need tiktok clone and a Facebook clone.
Nobody I know in real life uses twitter.
Everyone I convinced to download primal hated it and refused to even bother checking out amethyst or other clients after that.