Farcaster is also a protocol. So is Bluesky/Atproto. But on Nostr most people view Farcaster and the eth place and Bluesky/Atproto as the left place.
It's very hard for social protocols to overcome tribalism in 2025.
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No, that's not the problem with them. On nostr people see that they are fake decentralization
Yes, I've never seen anyone serious here complain about Bluesky or Farcaster based on the content, I have no problem with their content. Their only problem to me is fake decentralization.
But yes, people in the external world do see Bluesky as a community of leftists, and Nostr shouldn't be like that but for the other side.
Someone has to make a new set of default relays, with a new client that people can be onboarded into but that doesn't feature a million bitcoiners posting all day.
The Japanese people did that with their geo-supremacist relays that only accept posts in Japanese made from Japan. We should prove it's possible to do it for other niches.
So I created nostr.moe, but I didn't expect it to attract many native Chinese speakers. I don't want to promise too much, as in "virtually unlimited media storage and freedom of speech", most of today's social platforms make it habitual to ignore the costs of socializing (and by that I mean the technical ones).
You say that, but we're about to launch such a normie-friendly app and we'll see if you help promote it.
Every time you write one of these "someone needs to build" things, I assume you're just pre-marketing something already built, and it's always been true.
So, what is the new App Du Jour called?
Are you serious? I don't think I ever "pre-marketed" anything like that. Can you give me some examples of when I've done such a thing?
You said we should add RSS and then you rolled out a RSS client right after that. And you did something similar for someone else, a while back, as a marketing help.
I think it's sort of unhelpful because someone with fewer followers (which is nearly everyone), might take you seriously and try to build something, and then find out he got rolled and feel dismayed.
I watch that go down, over and over, on here. All of y'all Big Accounts do it.
Call to Action, and then, "I have something prepared, actually..." or "Now that we have recognized this pressing problem, and spent days discussing it and generating hype, and fretting, here are the Same 5 Dudes getting a couple million dollas to fix it."
Ta-da!
It's incredibly discouraging.
What? No. I put out a bounty for Nostr integration in existing RSS clients and some people completed the bounty and integrated Nostr to some RSS clients. How is that "pre-marketing" or "marketing help" anything?
What else did I do?
There is also a budding Arab community with their own set of relays