Welcome #[0]!
Been waiting for some journos / content creators to come across and see the power of #nostr - get that lightning wallet setup ASAP!
There are some really interesting opportunities for how you control your content and engage your audience here. Start asking when you get your head around the basics 🤙
So mostly so far I understand the potential advantages in terms of not being subject to censorship or manipulation. What are some of the others?
Instant content monetization with zaps and the ability to truly customize your experience (relay selection, many clients to choose from, open protocol).
I think it extends beyond initial thoughts of censorship (like social media). Big difference in exclusion from markets, apis, etc. The protocol is the difference.
You can run your own relay and client. No big tech sitting in between you and the network.
Decentralization. Nostr can’t “go down” in the same way that Twitter or Reddit can because there are no authoritative systems. You just use another different relay. Or your own.
just had my aha moment with nostr as i loaded my account (with zero difficulty) from one client into another
i get a totally new app experience with the same identity ( & zap integration!!! as another reply mentions)
Zaps! Instant value for value transmission . Post great content, and people who value that content can send you sats direct to your custody! No big company taking a % in between! This allows micropayments!
Do you really need more after what you have experienced. 😉
Seriously though it is open source, so anyone can develop anything for it. We have had features added almost weekly due to this. We'll have a market place for anything and everything P2P in a month or so, the GitHub for it just dropped today.
Unlike a platform where one party decides if you get a feature set and when if you do so, we have dozens if not over a hundred independent devs building as much as possible as soon as possible.
Clients adapt or they get killed off by other clients.
I have summed up the marketing of Nostr as
"One Key Pair and Your Tribe is Everywhere"
Think of how many followers you leave if you leave Twitter.
Now think of never having to think that way again. What you build as to a network on Nostr you take anywhere you go forever.
Jack, your podcast on Nostr and your #grownostr effort was a success in my book and I was only a listener - wasn’t watching.
It all made sense and I’m an old guy like you.
I’m here because of you.
beyond censorship resistance is interoperability, you can switch clients for vastly different social experiences but keeping the same network.
we making music over on @stemstr we writing long form on https://habla.news // there are people working on distribution like paid newsletters & and music distribution “zapster”.
You are free to create an alt if you want a new account just like signing up for the hundreds of things we log into, but also free to go explore these new experiences with out having to sing up once again.
This is also great for new developers, if you have an idea there now already exists a nostr audience who can frictionlessly try out your new idea with out having to convince them to create an account. And the protocol is very simple and readable, it’s easy to hold the implementation in your mind, with space to create on top of it.
the best part about the open-source/censorship-resistant nature is that it enables an explosion of developer creativity that you don’t get from closed source/centralized providers who may offer a carefully limited API
look for a lot more builders building! 💪
Nostr is a protocol not a platform which means you can take your content and followers to any front-end without lock-in.
Imagine if you didn’t like how Twitter was acting and you could just easily switch interacting with your Twitter followers via Substack without having to rebuild your whole follower list.
A key thing is that nobody has a monopoly on nostr's userbase. Anyone can create a client and have the same access to all the users and their content as other client developers. Open network effects.
