I signed up to Nostr a few months ago (in Feb I think?). I found it confusing getting to grips with it but I pushed thru and got on with it. Initially, I found mostly, what looked like, Chinese porn and couldn’t find much good content. I got super busy after that and didn’t end up opening a client for a while but I was determined to come back & give it a go, as I’ve been frustrated with the mainstream SM platforms for years. I never wanted to join FB but was forced, due to my kids’ activities being organised there within various groups. Before that, all my friends thought I was nuts for not being on FB, not to mention their astoundment! I had hardly been into Twitter for a year or 2. I’m glad I persisted and stuck with Nostr. This is the earliest I have ever adopted any kind of SM and, the reason is, I wanted to contribute to building a new way forward, to get away from centralised, heavily controlled, censorable platforms. Perhaps the people who have not stuck with it (or not joined up) don’t appreciate the need for decentralised SM, don’t understand that not everything is perfect in the beginning and want everything to work perfectly from the start (in this world of instant gratification). I have been parenting for 25 years and 15 years homeschooling. so I have an appreciation of working on something for the good without knowing the end outcome and having faith! It’s a marathon, not a sprint.
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Yeah we need better onboarding. I think some clients are already doing a better job so things are trending in the right direction!
BTC was discovered & designed to require work. Proof of Work is not just about the tech.
Once I spent the many hours it took to understand BTC, it became much easier.
The issue is that nobody wants to work to understand it. Don’t make it too easy or you run the risk of hurting rather than helping. IMO.
BTC is doing just fine.
