Well it’s a good thing that I’m hyperfocused on ₿ at the moment and in a bit of a transition. Despite being in it since like 2013 (and never ever being a shitcoiner) I’m only just now beginning to “get” what it really is. When I first heard about it in 2011, people told me I could “send money over the internet” and I was like “I can do that with paypal right now, I don’t need bitcoin” it took 13 years and getting debanked to learn that I actually did need bitcoin. I wish I’d aped in sooner.
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Sure, but that doesn't change my point. I can imagine Nostr seems like a big circle jerking cult to a normie. I can understand WHY Nostr probably isn't attracting people in my culture (people who don't yet need it as much as they will). I can't speak for others and this is an anecdote that could be totally wrong. There's also what I call 'technical-value misalignment.' For example, follow count. Follow count is prized on all of the major legacy networks, even if people are aware of bots forming those numbers. Some people even pay for them to pump the numbers because it's so valuable. Yet on Nostr, it's hard to even get an accurate count of anything. It's so novel (and bigger than social media) that people struggle to get it. I think the only way past that is some mainstream use case that don't drown people in Bitcoin and Nostr related content, as much as I love both.