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Shawn 2y ago

I’m reminded of a sales tactic called “negative selling,” where you tell the prospect all the reasons they shouldn’t buy. It’s a way of calling their bluff with regard to their objections—the reasons they’re stalling or saying no. More often than not, they quickly fold and ask to continue the buying process.

But it’s not just a sales tactic. It’s smart product strategy. If a product is for everyone, then it’s really for no one.

This has become my approach to nostr naysayers. “No problem. Freedom’s not for everyone.” And it isn’t. Human history tells this story over and over.

So, stick with Twitter. Or Facebook. Or whatever. Freedom’s not for everyone. nostr:note1hptklflt7sl92rsws4u6s2mfl26tmq6myc3dpuejy3kml3tq5zxqaahfnn

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Ava 2y ago

it's a powerful technique 😎

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SMS 2y ago

We haven’t found a better technique, have we?!

😉

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SMS 2y ago

#awkward miss.

😂

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zach 2y ago

Well said, Shawn. I love the “freedom isn’t for everyone part.” It seems like such a challenge.

It is also very apt. I discuss Nostr and/or bitcoin with people and it can seem like such a no brainer for me, yet I must need to work on my sales pitch a bit, because it does not seem to land as often as I would expect.

Maybe this is the retort for me! 😂

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やトナ 2y ago

It’s hard getting people to care about issues when they don’t want to acknowledge that there are issues. Can’t even count how many times I’ve been told by people they don’t need bitcoin because dollars work fine.

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Shawn 2y ago

🫱🏻‍🫲🏼

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Byrdman 2y ago

Well said!🤙🏼💜🍷

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sofka 2y ago

Profoundly true!

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Gerald Glickman 2y ago

Nostr is great but there do appear to be fundamental architecture issues that will need to be addressed.

I don't think all criticisms should be dismissed as "you must not like freedom..."

I think there are people who care deeply about freedom who are very informed and have valid, grounded perspectives on scaling limitations of the tech.

https://twitter.com/BobMcElrath/status/1652682830550368257?t=ZSSnt_pA4fvUhV415Z3t2A&s=19

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Shawn 2y ago

I don’t believe anything I said is dismissive of criticism. I’m referring to those who dismiss nostr outright, while spending their days crowing on twitter. Bob, in particular, is notorious for this with regard to any number of technologies he thinks he can predict the future of.

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Gerald Glickman 2y ago

I see. And I agree, I don't know why anyone would dismiss it outright.

I also don't know Bob, but I have worked with large-scale distributed systems enough to moderately follow the input submitted by Adam Back and CSUWildcat (Daniel) and concur about the nature of the problem given the architecture.

That doesn't take anything away from what Nostr is right now. But as an objective, grounded answer to the question that was asked, I don't think there's a better one.

https://twitter.com/csuwildcat/status/1652840602571005953?t=pGaANIg5Tq3F5inhdvp0Dg&s=19

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Shawn 2y ago

Smart guy who’s worked hard in or adjacent to what nostr seeks to solve for for a long time. And 3 years ago, I was very bullish on DID, even driving our then-product in personal data storage to integrate. Then I saw the reality of how top-down and arguably over-engineered DID is—not unlike AT.

Rough consensus and running code gets my vote every time.

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Gerald Glickman 2y ago

I get it for sure, 80/20 rule is universally applicable.

I didn't know you were in the DID space! Would love to learn more about your perspectives on that.

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Shawn 2y ago

More personal data storage and ownership. It’s a bear of a problem.

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Gerald Glickman 2y ago

Data has to live somewhere. No perfect choices. To your point, we learn as we build.