One difference is that Nostr needs people to make it better into a compelling alternative to Twitter to the masses.
There’s already compelling alternatives to Apple but many choose to stay. So let’s fight for those people.
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Exactly. All of us quitting at once is probably the best they can hope for. To a company the size of Apple it hardly matters. But making a fuss on Twitter to stay in the game on App Store is way more effective.
I don't understand how this doesn't apply to the other case. Many also choose to stay on Twitter.
Twitter has massive reach. One tweet can easily be seen by thousands of people.
I suppose you could leave Apple loudly on Twitter and that may have a tiny bit of impact but most likely nobody will follow in your footsteps unless it grows into a viral woke movement (that probably only lasts a few days max).
I’ve done my best on Twitter. My audience was such that people don’t really care about censorship resistance so it made no sense to keep barking into the void.
I see your point. You can do both, though. Keep using Nostr and Twitter but when on Twitter point people to Nostr whenever possible, something like that. It probably makes some difference.
On Apple I don't see how you can make a difference by staying. If you leave, too, the difference is almost none, but at least it is _something_.
I agree, though I think you run into diminishing returns quickly on Twitter. People will know your position fairly quickly and will either listen or ignore. Maybe you get a spike of reach if you’re lucky on some large account comment.
But then you could do the same or better by focusing attention on improving nostr clients.
I don’t know which is more effective - can do both.
Just imagine an XRP person talk about XRP in your feed every day. How long will you listen to that? 😂
Surely it’s best for nostr to have…
• plethora of iOS apps
• plethora of Android apps
• plethora of Progressive Web Apps
• plethora of Web apps
• plethora of Windows desktop apps
• plethora of Mac desktop apps
• plethora of Linux desktop apps
• plethora of desktop services
• plethora of cloud services
• plethora of mobile services
etc, etc, etc
Nobody here is building a monolithic solution.
It’s fundamentally a network protocol.
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Nostr does not necessarily need more people. It needs more application and people will come. I think Nostr shouldn‘t be seen as just another twitter clone. It should provide something twitter cannot easily do and what people ultimately care about.
Given the open protocol and the ability for anyone to develop their own client and participate at some point there will be something better than what big tech is currently providing. It is hard to compete against the whole world.