I’ve started thinking of Nostr adoption in terms of migration and bridges rather than fresh starts. The value of getting-started education, in terms of tech clarity and protocol introductions, is important to know how it works, yes. But, everything else is someone migrating some or all of their existing social tech usage from centralized platforms (where they’ve established real world and online relationships of value) over to the nostr:nprofile1qqsraldwhvwcjgltmxwfu7kw8dqef2692yhzheuurd7k3kfy8cxjdqgpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejszrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakq38rpsu's and nostr:nprofile1qqs9xtvrphl7p8qnua0gk9zusft33lqjkqqr7cwkr6g8wusu0lle8jcpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqg7waehxw309ahx7um5wgkhqatz9emk2mrvdaexgetj9ehx2ap0p3ejkp's of the Nostr protocol. Making this a smooth experience that doesn’t let the tech get in the way of the engagement is paramount. Imagine nostr:nprofile1qqs8zwtccvy5pqdnfl8j74y3wvascgnj3nfm0f55v5vagr6lppvc47qppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7yp9yj6 facilitating the migration of content that would otherwise be stranded on other platforms. Imagine nostr:nprofile1qqs24yz8xftq8kkdf7q5yzf4v7tn2ek78v0zp2y427mj3sa7f34ggjcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj7fjgzxw porting relationships that would be otherwise abandoned. And imagine any nostr:nprofile1qqsfnz2sqsflkatdssmeztxr90s8xrd7r07xkhfwaa6eu9zkcguljpgpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezu7rdwgh8ymmrddeszrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakq5gusue compatible clients offering bridges for your future content to be posted back to those centralized platforms where your relationships remain. The cross-posted content links could even pull people back through a smooth Nostr UI content viewer where it made sense. All of this so that engagement time spent on Nostr actually rippled value elsewhere and made Nostr the obvious center of the social ecosystem. Right now joining Nostr feels like you abandon your own society for another. But, instead we could cross-pollinate engagement, thus attracting users that have not yet migrated and without placing new users into the sort of isolation that happens when you show up to a pre-existing party where you know no one. This “start by Migration & stay because you’re Bridged” solution could be facilitated by a standardized core framework designed to be integrated easily by the many Nostr clients so they didn’t have to scaffold all of the connectivity themselves, and could instead just focus on their own branding and UI/UX connections to the core Migration&Bridge api layers. The results could be connecting new Nostr users to their existing friends like nostr:npub1teawtzxh6y02cnp9jphxm2q8u6xxfx85nguwg6ftuksgjctvavvqnsgq5u is trying to facilitate, but even better, with in-client cross engagement continuing to facilitate relationships that are otherwise stranded from one another by the protocol divide. Thoughts are welcomed. I’d be willing to work on this with popular Nostr client devs. Let me know if a project planning role would be useful and if you’d like to participate.