we had zero advertising.
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False. When TWTR started all I see was TWTR ads on NFL and NBA games
I am not sure how to feel about nostr's loss of Snowden. Do we let him be, or try to solve his technical problems? It seems like tor is an excuse to move away from nostr and not a reason.
Widespread success of a social media depends on adoption by big names because that's the majority of people's reason for showing up in the first place.
For now, I say its not important to draw big names. We have a technology that is bigger than any group of celebreties, and it is continually expanding its capabilities. Eventually nostr will naturally consume and/or force adoption by all private platforms.
Donβt discount the need for big names.
Those big names bring along the average user - then convert a percentage of those average users into creators that draw in more average users.
I donβt think Nostr is ready for prime time at the moment because there needs to be a client that functions with all the basics prior to those users being onboarded.
When you have a new protocol like this - one that introduces new paradigms - the basic functions canβt also be complex.
It creates a barrier to entry that is too high for the majority of users.
Weβre building something at Letr.co to solve these issues.
From my perspective we need to lean on existing open source projects that already operate with mainstream users and integrate Nostr.