Is there a client, already built or being built, that aims to kill Facebook groups? #nostr #nostrdevs #asknostr #plebchain
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I'd imagine that will be very difficult. Consider the audience. Most bitcoiners tend to be early adopters. While nostr clients have been improving tremendously, it is still somewhat clunky and you have to make manual tweaks for an optimal experience. Not quite ready straight out of the box.
For the most part, the only people left on Facebook are the laggards. They tend to be less technically capable and hang onto old technology after most have moved on because it is comfortable. They will be the last group to migrate and the most difficult to capture.
Yeah, I get that. Iām a counter example. I am in a couple of groups, one in particular, where no one in the group is really happy about it being on Facebook, but everyone already has an account.
My pipe dream for the ābuilt on Nostr fb groupā would be that the bar to setup an account, join the group, and be off and conversing is stupidly low. (Account setup already is that easy.)
For example, we tried migrating to discord, but the learning curve (or perceived learning curve) was too high.
What are the features needed for that? Do you think it would work with just kind:1 notes? Are these groups private or public?
I donāt know if Iām the best person to answer the question about kind:1 notes.
The couple groups Iām thinking of are private. Although Iām sure there would be a demand for public groups as well.
The functionality that we use is almost like a closed version of Facebook - posts to the whole group and then conversations on the post. (I prefer chat-based groups, but people are comfortable with the post/comment structure.)
Many of the Twitter-like clients could have this feel, if instead of signing up, then joining a bunch of relays, and then following people, you just signed up and joined a group. Maybe the group has an npub (or similar type of public key) and when you sign up it just asks you for the groups key.
Honestly, if I understand relays correctly, this could be done with any client and a dedicated relay. For example, Iām in a āeducators for heterodoxyā fb group. I could just set up an āeducators for Heterodoxyā relay, direct group members to a client, and have them only subscribe to that particular relay. Then our feeds would just be from each other.
Maybe Iām off on that - just thinking out loud. (And I donāt have the time or expertise to actually run a relay, Iām just thinking hypothetically.)
This is kind of what I was thinking too. That sounds like a simple and reliable setup and easy to integrate in existing clients even. Thank you.
No, please, that's a urgent thing.