war against blue checks completely misses the target. most everyone is lending legitimacy to twitter & mainstream by virtue of using it.
Bitcoiners need leaders who incentivize productive activities other than scapegoating for entertainment & likes to survive the relevance bear market.
Building is a far better use of time.
Nah bro, we gotta run around injecting errant political / religious views into bitcoining and actively go out of our way to mock and antagonize the very communities who’s lived experience would make ready to go all in on bitcoin if the message wasn’t delivered wrapped up in an bunch of neckbearded trolling and bigotry!
I would add that, talking negative about existing products does not make sense.
Build better. Do something better.
Also better to allure people to new things by showing its advantages compared to showing the disadvantages of the other product.
If you show disadvantages, you turn the picky side of people on, and they will try to find the disadvantages of your product.
If you compete with advantages, they have to tell advantages of the other product, which will be a better discussion.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
Completely agree with this. Some, mostly politicians think they have to bash their opponent to be better than they are. I’m sick and tired of it. How bout just be better than the other guy, every day, and every way.
Matt hardly needs me to defend him, but as someone who gets to work alongside him most days at #[2], if you think he isn’t engaged in and motivating “productive activities,” you have been deeply buried under a very large rock.
