Is the lack of interesting content for people who are not interested about bitcoin still a reason people give for not sticking around?
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I don't know, maybe we should focus on getting at least the Bitcoin people here. There are a lot still there on x-dot-com farming likes.
If those people will really pay to view ads, would they really be a valuable addition to nostr? A lot of them will make the switch at that point for sure and the rest will become obsolete. Probably.
Agree, Bitcoiners are preconditioned to get nostr quickly and are the perfect early adopters.
Chicken and egg, yes, but some of the other issues amplify that issue.
I guess one factor is that people aren't used to constructing their follows manually without any suggestion algorithm telling them who to follow basically.
From a content creators perspective the lack of engagement, is definitely an issue with Nostr in it's current state, especially if your goal is to monetize your content, imo. If you spend multiple hours crafting and coming up with unique notes, yet you don't receive any feedback at all whether it's a comment, like or a #zap it can be discouraging and ultimately over time those content creators will leave #nostr and go to greener pastures as the cost benefit analysis isn't worth it here as they don't have an audience. Why write something on social media if it's not going to be read by anyone, right? This has a cascading effect when new users join as when they find a community other than #Bitcoin and it's rarely ever posted they to leave as well as their is no one to engage with.
Imo, discoverability, on-boarding and ease of use have been long standing pain points on #nostr as trying to find other communities other than #Bitcoin can be challenging especially if you don't know what hashtags to use.
So until these pain points are solved the status quo will continue.
From what I've heard the engagement levels are way better on Nostr than they were on Twitter for example. Maybe it's true only for the bitcoin crowd though, who knows. And with engagement I mean meaningful conversation and exchanging ideas and resources. I think if you're really trying to monetize content maybe Nostr isn't the right protocol for doing that. People are just trying to have a good time and zaps shouldn't be fished for like that in my opinion.