I don't want to speak for Jack, but he's an "Other Stuff" maxi and understands Nostr's true potential. He's even said that the social aspect of Nostr is the most boring part of Nostr, and I agree. Nostr is the social glue that binds all of our applications together and that's what's truly exciting.
Jack is the man, but he's only looking at #Nostr as a social media
That's where the problem lies. The nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 Productivity Suite will make Nostr a very viable alternative to both Web2 big tech and the Blockchain
It's tunnel vision to think of Nostr as a social media
It should be a Productivity Suite + blog, podcast hosting and distribution, video hosting, newsletters, fundraising, and instant messaging all accessible and integrated with bitcoin/lightning
> The integration of legacy services with self-custody identity and bitcoin wallets will be the game changer
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Agreed. The key is the keys!
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Fully agree! I've said this before. The superpowers of the #Nostr protocol are 1) self-sovereign identity, 2) privacy, and 3) decentralization
It's the apps ecosystem (a productivity suite, for example) that one can access in a self-sovereign way with #Nostr keys and that's a fundamental and intended application of the protocol
Social media is NOT the endgame
I've suggested to the pros like nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 that the keypair aspect should be hidden from end-users. People should be able to sign in to any app with a bitcoin wallet that manages the keypair on behalf of the end-users
People should be given a nostr address and a lightning address by default. All apps should only display the nostr address (NIP-05) and not the npub
Make it easy to onboard normies
#grownostr
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