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Uncomfortable Nostr Reality check:

I've tried to Nostr-pill all my YouTube friends (some of them have incredible amounts of subs), but none of them care about the censorship resistance or decentralization. Even though they know Nostr exists, they have no incentive yet to come here. Their audience would follow them anywhere, but they need the tools to create community communications.

It's a sad reality, but it all comes down to usability, UX, and ultimately the easiness of paying and signing up for the community. None of these can afford to have a sign-up problem or issues with someone being interested in joining the community/their platform. It needs to work flawlessly and feel and look professional. Some of them charge $3-5k a year just to get access to this closed space, and people are willing to pay for this.

Another big pain point is community management. All of these YouTubers create these platforms to help their audience have a safe place to communicate with each other and build their own tribe.

Nostr is capable of facilitating all of this - we're just not there yet. We need to somehow invest so much more into UX and design.

All of this will come when the time is due. So, knowing that all of this is possible and that ultimately, Nostr will be powering most of these via the social graph, is what makes me extremely bullish. But also, let's not get ahead of ourselves and expect them to come already.

The UX and features are not there yet for these people. I am more than happy to help anybody trying to make this a reality. I want nothing more than having these people join Nostr. But I also totally understand their pain points. So, if you're a dev or a company working on this, please feel free to reach out - I can tell you all the issues they told me. Or just tell me how to best do this; maybe I can jump on a podcast so the issues are open-sourced for the whole community to hear.

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Why would anyone come here when its just a bunch of bitcoiners?

This has to happen naturally, and it will.

There's literally going to be no alternative when the rest of the internet is getting shut down.

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this is true but there is a lack of practical attitudes towards general usability and security of nostr, the replyguy is a perfect example, we have had no spam almost 2 years because nobody thinks we are stupid enough to fall for it (which is kinda cool, and all) but as a result the commercialization of nostr based systems is also suffering because commercial use cases require access control

Ok if humanity can't solve that then yeah it's fucked.

Because nostr isn't just some bitcoiners and antivaxxers, it's the only free way of speaking for humans who aren't in shouting distance - the central thread of the whole of future humanity.

Or did I miss some alternative way to escape the inevitable total control of everything that can be controlled?

knowing the tricks they use to control people's thinking is the main thing

nostr is a protocol that can be used to that end on the internet

the total control is not inevitable, not once in history ever has a tyrannical system lasted, because people find ways

Agreed, life will find a way, but what I think inevitable is that total control will be sought.

oh, evil motherfuckers gonna evil, and stupidmotherfuckers gonna not believe evil exists