To truly #grownostr and onboard the next wave of users, we not only need the tools, but we need proper marketing and visuals too. It's all part of the onboarding package to not only offer them the tools, but to make it visually pleasing too, enhancing their user experience. Most people won't stick around just because they're being told that they're early and the experience will get better and improve over time.
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no ads ;P
I like nostr because I know I’m not being tracked, I want to exercise my free speech without daddy government trying to banish me
B. I don't think most ppl know or care about http, wss, protocol, relays etc. We should talk about free speach, owning your data like followers and posts, no ads, no algo,send receive tips, and multiple different clients.
Correct. They do not. If they did, they'd be here. They care about pretty, sexy, marketing that pulls them in.
Unfortunately, free speech = 4 Chan for most people. People don’t know they need free speech until they need it. Free speech means freedom for trolls and others to harass in most people’s minds.
Nostr will have more success focusing on the ability to control your feed, no algorithms deciding what you can and can’t see.
I would say either of the two except B.
B comes across as too generic, ital could be any number of alt twitter's, no info there and I wouldn't click or scroll beyond that.
I think there's a lot of generic design slop everywhere and it's really not eye catching at all. This could be an advert for a bank account or a migraine relief tablet etc etc. it's become very background.
So at least A and C actually have some info to read.
I think I general nostr people should look at something like farcaster's pages and marketing. Would you click on it, scroll more? Probably not. That is how a non-nostr user sees the nostr equivalent. Farcaster marketing also looks and reads like generic slop (slight aside: is everyone writing using ChatGPT or does it just seem like this?). People see slop and ignore it.
It's quite a difficult task actually. I would probably pick the least 'slick' slop options available as a general rule.
Go have a look at a farcaster marketing or landing page or whatever.
You can it, generic AI art slop, purple colours, ChatGPT written copy.
'decentralised... Protocol .... Freedom.... technology....'
Maybe your think something along the lines of 'blah blah blah blah, heard it all before'.
That is how people see nostr too.
I remember the marketing for mastodon't. it had screenshots showing accounts from now dead instances, some of which were dedicated to gay furry porn, and then the lead developer was begging for more grant money. so don't do that lol
I've never been to the Farcaster homepage. I would not go there because I know it's a scam and a waste of my time.
Not really my point tho lol
nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 point of exercise is to identify what works well, and what doesnt.
For instance, per nostr:npub1j60x528w2g2vkq5kae5uhh8y7sezjyj20zcsg0v9muc72cmdpu0s0md7ua discovery “decentralized” keyword has been converted to snake oil by the VC fundsd crypto scammers.
Perhaps nostr should avoid this marketing at the very least on landing pages to stay as far as possible away from the scammers, and the scam funding VCs.
I like the first one ☝️
B