selling nostr to tech people and early adopters? absolutely
to the casual folk? definitely not
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"Imagine never having to make another login again, fill out your info, find your friends, etc"
That's the way I see it as normal user friendly.
another login again - nsecs, NIP-07 logins through phone and extensions on your phone are max pain to explain and to even use
in hopes that they get sorted out to a level you put it, it’d be an absolute dream and joy to demonstrate 💜🙏
"Logging in requires only the password you don't get to choose". I think that sums it up nicely 😆
imagine a password, which you are unable to remember and have to use an extension to login with
and if you lose it, it’s unrecoverable and you won’t have any customer support or password recovery either
it’s a tough sell
It would take as long to recover as to hack... a tough sell?
The toughest sell is some of the content they may get exposed to, honestly.
i think a lot of casual folk are tired of looking for their friends when they start using a new platform. even using import tools is a hassle. it's a major effort being an early adopter the way platforms exist today, but when your "user account" (read: npub) can plug in anywhere it's a pretty big deal.
but you're original point is a good one. im ready for more "other stuff" to start shlilling to the normies in my life
one of my biggest points that i was discussing at the unconference:
why is 90% of the developer powers going into developing twitter clones, when there’s so much more to build and apply the protocol for
yea, i want to see an app like amber ported to ios and desktop
don’t the following offer that?
nos2x
nostore
alby
It's probably the same reason everybody uses Windows and not Linux: familiarity and ease of transition. Sure, Linux has way more personality and distros, but that makes it less appealing of a transition than mimicking what is already known.
At the least, the clones can introduce them to the concepts at a slower pace so they can develop an interest in the more creative projects that people will work.
gnome 4 has been a total disaster, and they don't let you have a way back. nearest i have found is cinnamon.
Whats the disaster with gnome? I haven't used many distros. My primary two are Mint Cinnamon and Unraid. Ive used Linux Lite and it felt like a transition between windows and Mint.
the theme engine of gnome 4 is a clunky copy of the MacOS style with dark and light frames in the same frame, and no support for GTK3 theme engines.
i like Adapta, which in code editors is known as "material oceanic", it is a dark green theme. Gnome 4 makes my desktop into a dog's breakfast of pseudo mac looking garbage.
i'm also very pissed at Gnome devs for the pointless and intrusive Tracker3 search engine back end. it always crawls my massive collections of code and fucks up my ability to work, play games, and generally enjoy use of my computer. Tracker has been a problem since they started that shit in gnome 3. it's idiotic, because for the most part, slocate does the main job of indexing your filesystem, i am more often searching for filenames than wanting to search content, and that's what Tracker3's specialty is.
i just turn it off, forcibly, it always hits me out of the blue after a few weeks running a new installation and i'm so frustrated. i've managed to keep an installation ongoing, but yeah, between the constant mangling of gnome's dconf registry style configuration system (at least as bad as windows registry) and ubuntu's habit of upgrading kernels that are locked in with packages that i can't uninstall, that don't support my video hardware, black screen boot out of the blue, and unhelpfully difficult to access GRUB configuration.
this is why my system now is running arch, cinnamon, themed with adapta, tracker3 is disabled forcibly, as well as in the configuration.
btw, you should see how intrusive tracker3's settings are in dconf.
it's almost like they are putting it in there to spy on us, all they need to do is slide into your user profile via some vulnerable app and they can just snarf tracker's indexes and quickly determine what your business is.
i don't like Mark Shuttleworth, I don't like Gnome Foundation and I don't like the Linux kernel either. all of them are sus as fuck, most likely NSA fronts just like all the rest of tech.
I can understand lots of that is bad (i need to look i to tracker3 now), but what's up with the linux kernel now? If there are important problems with it, I want to know.
mainly just annoying things with the kernel. lots of bug regressions with drivers i think. that can be a security concern but not as obviously intentional as tracker.