Nostr Web Client

Times have changed. Most people selling on Instagram or TikTok today, for them it would be unthinkable to focuss on their own website and build an email-list as an actual alternative (i.e. with a view to giving up on Instagram or TikTok).

And yes of course it's chicken and egg. But in this case I think audience/customer base must come first, before you can even start to talk meaningfully about censorship resistance. Most chicken and egg problems are solved by coming to the understanding that either the chicken or the egg is in fact more fundamental.

Constant 8mo ago

'Unthinkable', yes, indeed, they are unaware; unaware of the risks they run by attaching themselves to a platform, unaware of the nature/architecure of the problem, unaware of the sollution.

They "feel" they have no alternative, just as much they "feel" there are issues. Same goes for the audience side, that "feel" there are issues with platforms(the algos, dark patterns etc) and "feel" there is no way out (and why many probably welcome government intervention, if not out of sheer desperation).

Obviously converting the center in a single day is not a thing, but especially these days there is a whole lot there in the margin that is ready for 'capture'; and going back to Williams original post, is a matter of getting the point across

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Constant 8mo ago

Oh, and the point is that getting all those margins actually works/adds cummulative value in the context of Nostr

Garbage nsec 8mo ago

I share the wider sentiment, but for me I look at nostr stats and I see that it’s now shrinking, having shed a couple thousand daily actives over the last few months. What are we at now, 15k daily trusted pubkeys? And if you run a few more common-sense filters on top of that to weed out accounts that are not genuinely active, what are we left with then? A few thousand?

Like it’s just at such an embryonic stage right now that any talk of nostr replacing anything for anyone other than nostr enthusiasts seems a little jump-the-gunny .

Maybe the focus should be more on pure survival, just getting back to growth, fixing things, cutting out mess. The rest, for which we all have ideas for, save for 2026.