You have enlightened friends 😂; most people ask “I can use telegram and Facebook, what’s the big deal?”
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ha! you give them too much credit.
i didn't say they use nostr just that they get it.
getting them to use nostr will require them to have some "celebrity" that they want to follow or some incredible useability improvement over their other apps.
they will only move over when the need is great
I set them up with a wallet and show show them zaps and then they get it. 💡
yes i told them about zaps and they said. "you spend bitcoin on people for posts! that is crazy! think of how much bitcoin you will have wasted" and i responded
"think of how much you can earn"
this is just going to take time.
the longer we can exist over here the better
"time is the greatest salesman"
most people have been trained since youth to be consumers, not producers. it's no wonder that they had that thought first.
I’ve found the most challenging concept to help average folks get through is simply self custody of keys. This is the big departure from password-based centralization. I think browser extensions help with this.
It is also the easiest benefit to shill as well. There isn’t a giant database with passwords for companies protect. The attack surface for large account breaches completely changes with key-based identity.
Bitcoin adoption also helps. If I am used to keeping keys for my wallet, my nostr keys is pretty similar.