I mean, Nostr is pretty much a bitcoin echo chamber right now. That has its pros and cons.
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Yep. The average person still thinks that bitcoin=scam. So when someone like that joins nostr and sees that the overwhelmingly dominant topic is bitcoin they nope the fuck out. A drum I've been beating for a while now is the need to have some clients that don't have bitcoin/lightning integration and relays that have a "No Bitcoin" policy. At least that is a possible solution that I think could work.
That was basically my friends' reactions when I tried to nudge them here.
I get much less bitcoin related content in here that I used to on twitter.
These days someone started posting again about the halving (halvening?). Aside from that I get a lot of tech related news, fire memes by nostr:npub1lrnvvs6z78s9yjqxxr38uyqkmn34lsaxznnqgd877j4z2qej3j5s09qnw5 and nostr:npub1grk0tx6kqzvp86jvxzqmr8va2f0hdklj2xj6qwymf04z0saxhx8svlelrn and nostr meta posting.
Also a lot of private stuff, like Lyn's and Tatum's notes.
Gotta follow the right accounts. I think it takes time to curate a good feed on Nostr but the content is there - maybe less of it but 100x higher signal.
This is why I started the trivia bots and RPG Choose Your Own Adventure bot. I saw that new people needed something that was non BTC related to do on here. I mostly see lots of new accounts playing them and fewer heavy BTC longer term accounts.
I find that automated content is one of the great breakthroughs of Nostr. Some of it is really good and I think will only get better.
I agree. I use AI quite a bit. For mine, if you have a lightning address or even know what it is, great, you get sats if you win. If you don’t, you’re just playing a game for the fun of it.
To be honest I didn't put any effort in curating my list. I pretty much follow back everyone following me that actually posts notes.
Major bonus if they talk about interesting enriching stuff.
But as someone already said, you don't talk 24/7 about stuff other people already know pretty damn well. On bitcoin twitter, where shitcoiners, scammers and nocoiners roamed free, you kinda felt forced to evangelize the white paper words 😂
On Twitter you also had the “hot” conversations pushed on you because that’s where the engagement was, and those were often debates and arguments over bitcoin with nocoiners, shitcoiners, other bitcoiners, etc. So it was always in your face. Always. Here it turns out that bitcoiners are actually just people with lives and a wide variety of interests, including bitcoin, which they’re trying to integrate and build into other things they’re already doing. Who knew? 😂
I’m finding with Nostr that things get missed because you only see what’s happening in sort of real time. You log on and anything that’s happened a while ago is gone. Maybes I’m just using it wrong, but wouldn’t some sort of other ordering by engagement be desirable? Maybe this is in the works I’m pretty #nostrilliterate
You can login with nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg and check out their trending feed
Any plans for this in damus?
I proposed an idea to help with this, if I knew how to do it I would.
Nostr accounts the repost notes based on certain criteria imitating an algorithm.
Users can chose to follow these accounts or block them.
Content discovery is a work in progress, but is better today than it was at the beginning of the year. The problem you described is 💯% why a few of us started the nostr:npub19mduaf5569jx9xz555jcx3v06mvktvtpu0zgk47n4lcpjsz43zzqhj6vzk back in January. We post a daily digest of posts by other people about the stuff happening on nostr, and also just started posting a weekly blog that’s more focused directly on the tech updates. Primal.net and Nostr.band have some trending/algorithmic feeds you can also check out.
Nice thank you. I guess nostr:npub19mduaf5569jx9xz555jcx3v06mvktvtpu0zgk47n4lcpjsz43zzqhj6vzk is a manual (and centralised) thing. Where is a good place to see any ongoing discussion and proposals for content discovery? Is it all happening on here in certain #hashtags? Or on GitHub?
Yes Nostr Report is a manual/human effort by a handful of users that met on Nostr, more akin to a newsletter or digest. Good question on where the discussions are taking place. Not sure where, but nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s , nostr:npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac , nostr:npub1zafcms4xya5ap9zr7xxr0jlrtrattwlesytn2s42030lzu0dwlzqpd26k5 , nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft , and nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr are some great people to follow who are very involved with those discussions and development of Nostr and related apps. Also the devs of the apps that support Nostr communities, nostr:npub1lunaq893u4hmtpvqxpk8hfmtkqmm7ggutdtnc4hyuux2skr4ttcqr827lj , nostr:npub1alpha9l6f7kk08jxfdaxrpqqnd7vwcz6e6cvtattgexjhxr2vrcqk86dsn , nostr:npub1ltx67888tz7lqnxlrg06x234vjnq349tcfyp52r0lstclp548mcqnuz40t .
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When you follow more people some notes are boosted and appear in the feed up to 3 days or more after being born.
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here some bitcoin content, fill your bs bingo sheet:
Bitcoin fixed this
Micheal saylor says
We are still early
Value 4 value
Tick tock next block
Hard money
low time preference
enjoy 🧡🧡
you forgot the picture.
Hal-finning
Nostr is its own protocol. It doesn't depend on #Bitcoin in any way.
Thanks for the mention, nostr:npub1vjxq75czca0nswp2f5kgtfyzhynuccdjs29q098rd3kv09k7s6nq39hh7v 🤙💜
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You’re right. When I first came here 3 months ago.
I made an intro. as I was building open source at cardano before nostr. I think it’s nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424, who commented “bitcoin only” 🥲
The real question: Did we convince you to go Bitcoin only? 👀 Have we orange pilled you through the purple pill?
Was orange pilled before purple pilled.
Go Bitcoin only, not yet.
Orange pilled and building on cordanoh?
Yup. Just build. Don’t stop building.
haha, nostr:npub1nw5vdz8sj89y3h3tp7dunx8rhsm2qzfpf8ujq9m8mfvjsjth0uwqs9n2gn my man nostr:npub1alpha9l6f7kk08jxfdaxrpqqnd7vwcz6e6cvtattgexjhxr2vrcqk86dsn needs to see some cordonoh videos 😆
I would love to see those videos.
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it looks like we have more work to do.
If it’s getting people purple pilled is focusing on social media, it can take awhile due to network effect. How many of your friends in real life or wife are on nostr?
For the “other stuff”, it doesnt require network effect. A good product that solve certain problems. Bullish and let’s go