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#nostr is a conspiracy theory
It wont boot strap and its just 10k us till we bore
I did not receive bajillions of sats for basically single handedly saving nostrasia from being named something else like nostrokyo or idk
The serious issue though is just not enough people use it. They are content living in the matrix run by elon or zucky, including far too many bitcoiners. It’s a damn shame i tell you
i agree. and i think you deserve a cool milli
I installed damus on my fiance's phone and message her on the occasionally. She's addicted to social media and I keep hoping I can break her away from those toxic environments over time.
I also bring it up in conversations whenever anyone talks to me about garbage on those platforms. I just keep hoping that over time they'll all get curious and just gravitate towards nostr as they see how much better it is.
The problem is that these predators keep users there by preying on them while keeping them ignorant and addicted with their dopamine drip feed. It's hard help people see the light, but I won't give up on them!
I think it's a good thing it'll inevitably become used as an unstoppable decentralised Silk Road by a portion of the userbase and I can't fuckin wait
i literally said the same thing to a friend recently
makes me eXCITED
That purple is the best color in the universe.
Empower individual users by reducing corporate control on the other hand create a fragmented online space with challenges like misinformation, making it a topic of controversy. 🤔
U?
A tame/censored experience is being built
In order for nostr to succeed, we need Scott Stapp. I don’t make the rules
People are more interested by tik tok than nostr. They don’t want to be free, they want to do little dances 🤷🏾♂️
no groupchats :')
If it doesn’t grow anymore than this, I don’t care. I love it just the way it is. If the world goes to shit, we will be here waiting for the digital refugees.
I’d like to be able to selectively mute threads past a certain point. I nostrd something very silly about my nemesis and the replies wound their way to an argument about drivechains. there are now like 100 notifications about it and I srsly dgaf.
Some clients need to merge, there are a lot of passion projects but not enough strong development teams working to build the best single cross-platform client.
Too much focus on lone wolves tinkering, and too little focus on forming strong dev teams that build polished, high-quality systems, and contain people with *business* knowledge.
Town-square micro-blogging, aka Big World, is not the breakout use case for Nostr, just as consumer operating system was not the breakout use case for Linux (servers were).
Nostr won't hit serious numbers until the breakout use case is found, and when that happens town-square microblogging will take a relative back seat for some years, perhaps to return later. But on a positive note that breakout use case will be glorious.
Town-square microblogging is however a great genesis use case—something to get the ball rolling and keep it rolling until the breakout use case emerges from the quantum soup.
Self-slap for the mixed-metaphor.
You are not wrong, but also missed the obvious which you might have arrived at if you'd stick to the metaphor;
You are saying the townssquare is not the breakout usecase, sure, but whatever 'establishment' get super popular is still connected to that square.
Thats what the square is; the center to all the shops, restaurants, cafes, theaters etc.
I get you. By town-square use cases I mean use cases that require a consistent global view—no matter how much we try to kid ourselves that they don't. (The whole town is out there in the square, you can see them all at once from the balcony). Use cases for which the bulk of today's users simply won't accept not knowing exactly how many followers they have, or likes their latest post has, and many other such things—again no matter how much we try to kid ourselves that such things should not be so important, or that we can get away with asking users to kindly grow up and go without them. For those use cases Nostr just isn't it. Anything Twitter-esque, basically.
For your sense of the word though, certainly yes, I agree that'll be key.
The user experience on nostr is 1000x better than it was 4 years ago. In another 4 years it'll be 1000x better than it is now. Instead of marketing alpha and beta software to normies influencers and grandma, we should drink water and relax, they'll get here eventually.
VC bro money distorting incentive models, devs feeling coerced into adding features without doing any real testing or optimization, most people forgetting that nostr is a protocol not a cool boi club.
“No delete” is bad
There’s an echo chamber around Bitcoin. You can’t talk about any issues with scaling or the lightening network. Nobody is willing to objectively talk about this.