Social networking will always remain a niche use case for Nostr, while most of the interesting use cases fall into the 'other stuff' category.
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Am thinking of moving blog like posts and annoucement pages for p2pool to nostr. What is the most convenient way to organise these atm? Any suggested tools?
Few.
Social media is the first step in bootstrapping the "trust" network and proving the utility of Nostr. The problem is that social-first is highly saturated and honestly not that interesting; the "global" view and town square models have largely been captured and also don't seem sustainable and reliable over time as AI fills more and more of the content landscape. Unless the focus is on more niche and nascent communities, this is not what will allow Nostr to grow; we can see this with the relative lack of user inflows during outage and censorship events (though those tools are obviously much better served on Nostr than siloed platforms, so it's still a very important thing to work towards freeing the town square).
What will supplant standard social media as the driver for greater adoption will be placing the movement of money at the front and center of applications. This means marketplaces, yes, but also more UX focused on encouraging and reducing the friction of social monetary movement, like baked-in wallets, zap-first feeds, and (of course) nuts in emojis. Money makes the trade-offs between the silos and open networks much more obvious and incentivizes users to learn to care. Owning the social graph and content itself is powerful, but not convincing enough; the capital flow that the social graph unlocks is key.
Have seen some very interesting projects on github. I can see it almost playing a role in large amount of sectors. For example, two projects using a combination of #Nostr and #Meshtastic making it possible to network/share without the use of an internet connection or centralized service, a valuable asset to first responders in a disaster zone lacking communications infrastructure or in developing nations
Btw, any progress on joinstr?
Fair enough. I'm kind of illiterate when it comes to reading code. Can you summarize the progress in 2 sentences?
It's a rust library for joinstr which can be used by developers to build apps for joinstr or implement coinjoin in existing wallets. They can even use bindings if they want to use another language.
Pythcoiner is working on it and its development was sponsored by nostr:nprofile1qqs94rjcrut2qyhzf54xgq2j44tzqkxtqe0pmu5wjp7ph75zc9gv3wspzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgjwaehxw309ac82unsd3jhqct89ejhxqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t05aupqu
I'm not sure the "other stuff" makes it without the Social Trojan Horse...
#nostr is content management system .. it is built by creatives for creatives .. with inbuilt collaboration (social) and payment (zaps) layers ..
Normies have no reason to be on #nostr
Not forever