Nostr Web Client

Nostr slowly grows because weirdos find it by rummaging through the bins down the pissy "decentralised web" alleyway. It also has some bitcointwitter 'people' who join because they saw the 800th video of some bitfluencer pay for a cappuccino with lightning and mention nostr. There's too much focus on catering to the latter and not on the former. The weirdos tend to leave after a while unfortunately.

I mostly blame primal.

U-P-G-R-A-Y-E-D-D 9mo ago

I'm in the weirdo category and Primal is what brought me back. The UI/UX of Primal is a huge improvement over my previous visits.

I'm not that into the online Bitcoin Meetup energy.

Regarding BTC, I'm mostly interested the layer 2 stuff.

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7fqx 9mo ago

When you say brought me back, do you mean you were here before? I think the onboarding on primal is bothersome, it pushes bitcointwitter personalities and styles of posts, both in recommended users and sidebar. This is a terrible first impression. People would look at this and think 'ah this is just for bitcoiners' and leave, unless they are after bitcointwitter2 of course.

7fqx 9mo ago

It is very smooth to use tho.

And the sidebar when you go to a profile page is actually good. The trending sidebar is diabolical.

U-P-G-R-A-Y-E-D-D 9mo ago

I've only used mobile so far

7fqx 9mo ago

Ah I've never properly used the primal app, only browser

U-P-G-R-A-Y-E-D-D 9mo ago

I tried Nostr in the early days a couple of times but never stuck around.

I can't remember exactly why I tried Primal out, but probably because someone commented on how good it was. I was immediately impressed by the onboarding, UI/UX, and overall aesthetics. It felt like a totally different Nostr than I had remembered.

It definitely felt like an online bitcoin meetup (still does), but I've slowly found different crowds.

It would be an improvement if they dialed back the number of bitcoin poasters in the default follow list, or added more diverse accounts to the list.

Their onboarding is super polished. It could benefit from one of those "what are you interested in" flows so everyone doesn't end up in bitcoinville by default

7fqx 9mo ago

I believe they do do that at onboarding. However all their categories are linked to bitcoin. Eg music = bitcoin music, memes = bitcoin memes etc

U-P-G-R-A-Y-E-D-D 9mo ago

I honestly don't remember the details of the onboarding. I just remember that it was super easy and intuitive.

I still ended up in an online Bitcoin meetup though. Pretty sure I would not have chosen that.

7fqx 9mo ago

I don't doubt that at all, any of it. They do things in a slick way, I just don't think their ethos is something I would be happy to recommend to someone who was a total neutral. In fact I think it's sort of counterproductive