Unpopular opinion: What if all the bitcoin plebs who need to be here are already here, and we donāt actually have to convince anyone else? Maybe the real flippening happens when the rest of the world who has never used either bitcoin or the bird app discovers Nostr, starts zapping, and becomes the next wave of adoption.
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Thatās exactly what we need. Less circle jerk, more global adoption.
I am curious how the next wave comes. After all, nearly all of my favorite follows are already here, I don't know that we'll have the same exponential adoption trend continue.
Additionally, a big part of the reason I love this place is because of the bitcoiners.
I think it will be a good challenge to welcome no coiners in a way that doesn't put them off to the beauty of decentralization.
Yeah. At this point I think itās a matter of design for profile creation. The ease of starting with nostr is undeniable compared to other services. Every thing that currently takes time to do (like linking images or videos) that can be minimized into 1 tap goes a huge way.
one tap zaps, one tap zaps, one tap zaps (on Damus)
What technical challenges exist before we can fully integrate wallets, or at least connect them in the background so there is only a single-app experience?
I've abandon all other social channels for these novel punk rock thrills.
profile pic and banner makersā¦.obviously allow any pictures but a generative AI tool built in would be bad ass. i could see automation of the profile pic w an oboarding question like ādescribe your spirit animal. include as many descriptors as possibleā. wa-laa, new user has a custom profile pic of their inner self
By now at least some portion of the population has used a seed phrase, even people who have never used bitcoin but have NFTs somewhere. If the nsec can be presented as a seed phrase from within the app during onboarding we can at least help new users store their backups more easily.
Wellā¦ I cannot stress how difficult a setup it is for people to onboard to Nostr and bitcoin and to keep keys safe. My ex is a tech product manager and she couldnāt figure it out. The real adoption happens when things are as simple as signing up for an email account and key recovery is as easy as password recovery. All of this has to happen in a noncustodial manner.
I hope @jacks hardware wallet makes things easier. Mini scripts should help add some functionality too.
I had another thought to add today. The biggest obstacle for most people to move to Nostr isnāt that they would have to learn a new technology. That happens all the time. Itās that they would have to change their self-perceptions and attitudes toward others.
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Iām guessing the masses donāt even know what public/private keys are yet and those long numbers look scary to them. āAccount Usernames and Passwordsā make sense to them. Might take another generation to pass for the masses to adopt? But Iām hypothesising hereā¦hopefully quicker! Good UX and UI onboarding pretty key too.
It might even be simpler than thatā¦ To me itās a social dynamic. If their friends are here, theyāll come.
Change is a bitch for manyā¦.
I use Twitter as a news source and bookmarking tool, to ālistenā Iāve invested a lot in following certain people. Transferring that set up to Nostr isnāt automated itās a PITA. Same with setting up everything new here, from profile pic to a LN wallet whatever. Switching costs are friction on top of leaning the new tech.
Purple pill is the new orange pill
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Maybe someone makes a client that caters to different niches and we would never interact with them, but they use the tech, and you know what I'm okay with that
nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg is doing this. Itās exactly what nostr:npub1ey6qdmvzcgcsr883m9nspzz0mm037l26xtardzcskfsvc6gc7jssm9szvp from Breez is always talking about.
LETS GO.