Nostr Web Client

I don't think seeing incremental growth is relevant for nostrs success. Nostr is freedom tech. We need to build so that we're ready for a more adversarial landscape, whenever that crosses a threshold of encroachment.

For nostr I'd expect spikes of growth with declining flatlines in between.

I'd rather have an ark with no users before a flood, than not have an ark to fill once it comes as nobody had seemed interested during a dry spell.

Ultimately we're all here building because we see the dangers of growing centralisation around us. The question to me is will some big events come that spur a big movement onto nostr (I think likely), or will incremental authoritarianism go unnoticed (so far this seems to be the case - eg Tiktok coming under the fold without a big exodus).

So for now, let's build so that we can handle a BIG intake of users, and so that the nostr is newb ready.

Alex Gleason 2mo ago 💬 1

Well said. This is how I'd been thinking of it for years. But we're in this weird post-pandemic era now that I'm not sure is gonna play out the same way again.

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Gareth Kitchen 2mo ago

The thing is; you ain't going to see any growth when people's first experience is; a firehose of bitcoin/scammy/christian/libertarian stuff that's really in need of moderation... That's pretty much what people see, like it or not. I'd say most, if not all, just say wtf, I'm missing nothing here and never return.

And people that have tried a bit harder say they've been fleeced transferring crypto to sats with even the popular wallets compounding the scammy perception.

It's going to be a difficult base to grow from imho.