those two topics are common to most of us
i don't pay for insurance, i don't live in the usa, i would not pay for insurance, i'd rather ride a bicycle
we can talk about bicycles if you like? or programming language design theory? cryptography? mathematics? paleontology?
Yes - and I am quite interested in those two topics (bitcoin and geopolitics). But if you have a conversation around mathematics and paleontology...you might be speaking to yourself (at least on that last one). Computer science topics...plenty of discussion there.
But insurance...or perhaps #DenverBroncos, #DenverNuggets, #TexasLonghorns #HookEm...or putting Luxury Vinyl Plank throughout the house (good idea or bad)...still have pretty small audiences that a generic #asknostr doesn't address because it can get buried. Health/Wellness starting to get more traction, but not like we have a Shawn Baker, Paul Saladino, Peter Attia, Robb Wolf crowd here to tag.
Since I'm trying to make nostr the only place I engage (I do consume content on Twitter but only engage/share on nostr), I'm ready for a broader adoption and faster adoption curve. Going to take time before it becomes a platform for answers on a broader set of topics.
well, the more mainstream the topic, the lower the chances that you will find a lot of common ground on a protocol that is defined by being "not the mainstream"
i understand the desire to stake your ground in this place but if you need other less esoteric things than are common here then you just gotta keep your other foot in those places too
i am constantly arguing with a lot of the main core of nostr developers about certain critical points that i perceive as blockers to commercial adoption, and how certain ideals of this core group are at odds with commercial adoption at all
nostr is not a replacement for reddit or twitter or instagram or youtube, it is a primitive, extremely simple publish subscribe network protocol, that the current main VC funding is going into twitter clones, mostly, and a little bit towards the medium/substack style blogging
that's just how it is
i'm working for a company that wants to build out nostr protocol to implement slack/gsuite style tools for especially remote team collab systems, but that is even less well funded at this point, and we are scraping things together to leverage nostr tech for whatever my boss manages to wrangle in the shitcoin VC funding scene
i've got some clear ideas about what *i* would be competent for building, and it's very general, i'm most interested in performance and developer experience side things, so, really, it's not gonna happen overnight
think back to the old days... like, compuserv/uunet/irc olden days... you had to basically search around and find your little niche groups and if you were lucky they were all on IRC or internet news protocol or had mailing lists
we are at that phase with social networks for nostr, we have the bitcoin/geopolitics focus of the twitter crowd that mostly got here from twitter, and most of the funding goes to building out that infrastructure
building out other systems is a puzzle that someone has to dive into and put their neck on the line to do it and find someone who wants to fund that early stage development
my only point in all of this is from a business perspective: VC funding of nostr projects should be aimed mostly towards commercial applications
there is too much funding going to "this project" which does yet another of the same thing as the other 15 projects that are also getting funded
none of them are achieving commercial self-sufficiency and that's the problem at this point
the field is wide open, but it's a complex thing you have to figure out, and you have to be passionate about it
which is a very long winded way of saying "if you have one really big itch, focus on getting that scratched" go all in, start asking questions, find out what is needed to enable that community to be supported
that is proactive action, but it does start with "i miss my football fan group i wish they'd come here" but they definitely would not come here, you know what i mean?
Absolutely agree...and I no longer do software development or analytics, but I remember when I had no real resources to learn or bounce ideas off of back then. Heck, I go back to Oracle v5 and Oracle SQLForms...besides the fortran and assembly I wrote in college (as a mechanical engineer) in the late 80s. 🤣
And now the analytics are all open-source vs stuff like Tableau, PowerBI, etc.
All of that to say - it fatigued me to think about re-inventing myself AGAIN, as a consultant, to be a productive contributor in the builder space...although I'd be happy to evangelize/teach regarding "Why Bitcoin". But I'm at a point where I would only want to do that a few hours/week...and in off-season...because my primary mission now is teaching tennis to juniors - teaching competency, confidence, and "not everybody gets a medal" to make the next generation a little more tough, self-assured and not afraid of failure.
yeah, i picked up that interest in sport :) nothing wrong with it, i say, as i struggle to regain my ability to have basic physical fitness after decades of wrongdoing towards my body i am down with that, and my current effort is building my ability to sustain sufficient power to ascend 400m of altitude on a bicycle!
as far as nostr goes, it is easy to see if you could get the basic post/comment interface happening, and make a special data type related to schedules for training, competition and leaderboards, integrated together, it would bring a lot of sporty people to nostr
i can imagine it, but i'm mostly a wiring-under-the-board kinda engineer and training/documentation
but i hope you find some way to scratch this itch... there is many niches that nostrt is primed to serve, if enough energy goes to it
we got a golden age coming into view, really, i don't know how to explain how i know exactly, without boring you or going off onto esoteric tangents that seem unrelated, but it is happening, so, i am here rooting for you to get something moving in that direction
i never thought i would be here rooting for a competitive/team sports enthusiast if you'd asked me when i was a 15 year old kid at school where my preferred sport (skateboarding) was practically a crime, but here we are
Those cliches definitely existed, right? I was high school football in Texas - couldn't even conceive of playing tennis until after college. If not playing football, you were lifting and running...to get ready to play football.
Now I go to a high school and see tennis, lacrosse, girls softball, soccer, etc...different world. And hey, isn't skateboarding now an Olympic sport?? Good to broaden those horizons!
yeah, i agree, sport is maybe near among the next most common interests here
diet and fitness are big on the margin, and sport is just over the other side of it, as i see it
really it's just a matter of building tools that enable small scale sports associations and hobbyist clubs to build out their own infra, and off it goes, that's how i see it
it reminds me of the old days when i was a tech, helping small business people run their tech infra to enable their business, that was a staple of my work... that's still important, and i think something that nostr can do too but it's really just a matter of finding where there is enough interest and money to get it to the point where it starts to snowball
