Mentioned to Daniel that when I want to know how to simplify things I’ve built I let my kid use them. She’s young but she’s nerdy and I assume is using and interacting with things like someone in the age group of my target audience. So whatever questions she starts asking is where I start with what I either need to improve or what I need to explain in a better way that she can understand it. Like if she were here I imagine her first question when I try to tell her what this is…

“Well what’s decentralization?” And so I’d start there. That’s the only point really is that if this can be broken down in a way that it appeals to modern internet users then they’ll come. If I were trying to spread information about NOSTR I’d not even mention decentralization. They do not care. Since I came here from learning about it on TikTok I’ll say how I’d approach bringing people over here from social media…“Are you sick of worrying about the TikTok ban or ending up in Facebook jail? Join NOSTR where you make the rules” or just something like that. It’s more digestible for people who would otherwise be like “What’s decentralization?” Because the majority of people are gonna stop listening right there. Or stop listening when you say protocol. That’s information that they do not need right now.

And so once you get them here…the parts that they need to know also have to be as digestible for them, right? Like if you start fire hose to the face about relays and stuff…nope. Lost ‘em. So we have to go back to the drawing board on how we bring that information to the masses.

Here’s the thing…this is the result of the dumbing down of people. They won’t give us the time of day if they can’t grab onto it in a relatable way in like 3 seconds. They’re scrolling on. And it’s an unfortunate thing that it’ll just take time to undo that. We can’t force them to think when they’ve had years of programming trying to make them not think.

Am I even making sense? If I’ve just lost you I’ll be happy to try to explain it in a different way. I know I can kinda go on forever. 🤣