Nostr Web Client

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Lady Mae - Growth Teacher

I truly feel your frustration.

tbf, noob or not, experienced programmer or not, nostr is indeed "not for average users".

Nostr is the only social media where I have to understand its architecture alongside its content consumption.

Your observations are echoed by other users.

I have experienced some of it myself and still do.

I am fortunate enough that I came from a tech background.

When you say random users from the streets, I can relate to this message.

I have been sharing nostr with my circle (your average users with no coding background) and the feedback was: "it's too complicated".

Another comment from a user: "it's slow and I only want it to work" and "why do you need multiple apps that are not all working properly?"

I agree with these statements.

I also understand why there are fundamental issues and why we have multiple apps.

I only learned the answers because I asked around and did my own research.

However, not all users are interested in how it works in the back end in order to use a technology.

They do not want to be burdened by such an experience, so they leave.

From my experience, you need some degree of troubleshooting tenacity to get nostr to work properly.

Not everyone wants to know how the car engine works. Some only want to know how to run it, how to refill the petrol or when it needs tyres/maintenance.

I can fairly comment too regarding your observations of some dev mentality here.

Sadly, it is very common and I have seen too many of them from a previous career.

With that said, I am still rooting for it to succeed because I believe in its cause.

I have shared ideas in here whether they were seen or not, not that my voice is relevant as a random user.

With the trajectory of nostr, especially the lack of incentives for relay operators to run nostr (financial longevity), I am unsure what the future holds for nostr. 🫂

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RedTailHawk 2mo ago

Thank you. I don't mean to be so negative, either. I'm apparently Larry David today...Mr. Curb Your Enthusiasm lol. I don't mean to entirely squash all enthusiasm for NOSTR and its future prospects either. I am grateful that NOSTR exists and I'm impressed with what has been built. Anyone familiar with my research could pretty easily see that I'm not the type to throw the baby out with the bathwater. I see the good in it and want it to succeed.

If I didn't want it to succeed, I wouldn't be highlighting the issues I'm highlighting. I would just leave if I didn't care, so at least I'm not apathetic. I'm trying to highlight issues that are at the core of the "chasm" I'm to understand devs do discuss on a regular basis with respect to the knowledge gap between themselves and "normies".

I don't mean to throw shade at the volunteer devs of NOSTR as a whole, either. I'm painting with a broad brush here with my profiling and I am the type to look for and honor nuance wherever I can find it. It's also easy to pick apart my position and frankly I have growth to execute as well. It's not all on the devs, but even if I can acknowledge that, the masses aren't going to care. It's either easy enough to use or it isn't.

It kind of seems weird that low time preference Bitcoiners would do high time preference things like not normie-test stuff though. That seems inconsistent.

I do have some coding abilities, by the way. What I know is not applicable to NOSTR or Bitcoin but at least I'm not totally coding language illiterate. A lot of people out there are so I'm less of a noob than I present myself. That said, if I can't manage to get a smooth NOSTR experience for myself, normier normies than me aren't coming and if they do, they're not staying long.

I can help but not as a coder. The best I can do is voice my relatively noobish views so that the devs can potentially see how dumb I am when it comes to this stuff. I think that's good exposure for them to gain a sense of just how high up in the silo they are.

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