I must admit that I'm struggling to find a decent use case for #nostr as protocol.

The clients are often inconsistent, which makes the user experience poor or impaired. Some are extremely capable, others are basic.

Also, where are the old posts? They are lost somewhere and hardly loaded. There is no separation between media and text notes, which makes it hard for artists to showcase their work.

The filtering by hashtag is okay, but more is needed. The scrolling becomes a lot heavy after a while.

I might find it interesting as a coder, but that's different from my goal here at the moment. Also, the conversations with "notes and reply" are suboptimal because the notifications point to a specific point of the discussion. Then it is all about digging your way back to the original note.

No censorship is fantastic, but there is no spam protection, either. More control over your own content would be handy.

I'm not defending or supporting any bird, but this is far from being an alternative.

I'm not giving up yet, but it doesn't work for me so far.

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I think its up to the clients/platforms that build to get it there and they are young and adding as they go. I just switched to Amethyst and it's great. Media tab, communities, live, great UI and more features than 3 others I tried. Give it time.

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Agree. I am not seeing any specific reason why a regular person should use nostr. Censorship is not something everyone worries about. It should have something else to it. May be some use cases leveraging bitcoin may change the scenario.

The problem is about functionality.

When I don't want to get tracked, or for the part of my life that does not need an audience, I use other measures, adopt different behaviours, and the last thing I want is to write anything that stays there without control, right?

You don't need a protocol that allows this kind of communion when you need to be private.

On the other hand, when you want to share content, you need people to have a consistent experience and control over your posts.

The monetisation part is also meh.

And without the proper instruments and audience, it all comes down to people sharing random sentences and simps sending a few sats.

And the most of the content is there to say how cool is nostr.

A lot of nothingness.

So what's there? Apps. But apps built on the top of a protocol hardly provide any value if not a bunch of degens hoping for airdrops and making cash on the next run.

And even biting the anti-censorship part, let's say for journalists or refugees. When they send out a message, who is the audience?

The users of that specific app, for that specific platform. It doesn't resonate much.

There should be less talking and better perspectives on developing a platform that delivers features and functionality enough to appeal to a bigger audience.

Totally agree.

Bitcoin circlejerking, that's it

It takes time, it’s a different group of people, and regarding the client, they are purposely different so you find the one you like.

So you're a dev? The good thing is that you can fix whatever you think Nostr is lacking. As opposed to centralised platforms where you play to whatever they have in mind for you.

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Nostr is still be built out in real time. I been here in 7 months and UI and features has massively improved. It’s still early days. But feedback like this is what will help devs to build better UX experiences for artists/creators.

Maybe add your suggestions of what you would like to see or improvements. You could help make a big difference.

You are right… for now. I saw one of your images and followed you FWIW. Agree there needs to be communities for photo sharing and digital art. It is coming. Please stay!

I can think of one. A "decentralized social media" protocol. It's literally the only protocol I know of that fits the bill.

No worries. It takes time! We are all here to be part of the beta. If it's not for you yet, give it time.

My view on it is that every central thing can be rebuild, so if you like the idea of DAO’s you found a good protocol to test and build on 🔥