Nostr Web Client

I just mean that Nostr does not have infinite waiting time. Without a lot of new users—and I mean a LOT—and a high enough percentage of them contributing financially, then Nostr as we know it may cease to be in a few years.

In such a case it'll not go away entirely, of course. But client devs will find other work, AWS bills will go unpaid, business licenses will expire, clients will break down and go offline one by one, and so on. There might be a few hundred people left using whatever is still usable. You know, the fallout scenario.

Is this a realistic fate? It sure could be, and it means Nostr can't be too presumptuous about having years and years of comfortable runway during which to wait for all these people to somehow (not sure how) come to their senses.

StackSats.IO 8mo ago

People aren’t going to “come to their senses.”

Either stuff is built on Nostr that people want to use or people won’t come.

The beauty of the protocol is that every new app can add marginal utility to the User. So maybe it’s not a Twitter replacement, but a Twitter substitute + fountain + zapstream + lightning wallet and that provides a User enough value to stick around.

We need more apps, not more Twitter clones in the hope people migrate here for the same experience just with less censorship because that isn’t a 10x worth it.

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Garbage nsec 8mo ago

I think you're right about the Twitter clones not being the thing. Even Primal seems to be dropping strong hints that the future as per Primal's business plan lies in longform. (Which fair enough to them, I think longform on Nostr could be quite good if given enough love, which to date it has not been given.)

But otherwise there is a big difference between a lot of apps and a lot of apps that *work*, see meme.

StackSats.IO 8mo ago

Sure, abandonware will proliferate on Nostr.

But there should be a lot of plug and play type infrastructure coming eventually where it will just be easy to build on and piggyback from the identity system.

I don’t know what will be built that will work to gain a following, but interoperability lowers the bar for new entrants so the likelihood of something sticking goes up. More apps is more at bats. There’s no guarantees obviously but for devs there’s no better options for bootstrapping out there today.