Nostr Web Client

Ryan Salayer

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The introduction of badges changed Reddit for me. The psychological need to continue using Reddit to continue my daily streak is strong.

I noticed this after the first few badges. 5 days 10, 20, 30, etc. I wanted to keep going because I was getting notifications that I was completing something special.

After earning a couple badges, I found myself forcing myself to use Reddit every day just to keep my streak alive. Then, badges started to become more rare in quality as the streak day count increased. I wanted to collect them all! I wanted to see if I could earn the legendary ones. 365 days? 500 days? Hell yeah!

I don't particularly care about Reddit all that much. Most days I'd be fine just reading. I don't need to upvote or downvote. Or at least I thought I didn't? Badges changed that for me.

I see this with my children, especially my daughter. Her and her friends all use Snapchat to communicate. She cares about keeping her streaks alive with friends. It's a silly little indicator in Snapchat, just like Reddit, that keeps pulling people back in.

I know that we all recognize the issues with legacy social media. I know these tactics are meant to keep bringing us back, so that the algorithms can keep us enraged and engaged, to steal our attention. We can do better!

It's no secret that user retention is horrible across the Nostr ecosystem. Could a Nostr client implement something similar to these streak badges without the negative aspects to keep people coming back? Definitely.

Nostr doesn't have evil algorithms. (Someone could build one though. It's an open protocol!) I believe a developer could implement a similar feature to draw people back into their application. We have a badges spec. The badge could be automatically assigned and displayed on the user profile as their engagement increases.

I guess technically this doesn't even need to be implemented by a specific client. Someone could essentially write a DVM for this, right? This would be a large task though. The DVM could use the nostr.band API or search.nostr.wine API or something similar to do this and assign these streak badges automatically across "all of Nostr" or even just a specific set of relays. Relay operators could implement something such as this too. It's all possible.

Thoughts?

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Ryan Salayer 1y ago

I think a majority of “average” people want socials with these types of features and use socials more as a means of escaping dredgery and monotony than engaging with people or content. Just my 2 sats

Ryan Salayer 1y ago

Thanks I hate it

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If you're using the biblical imagery than probably pro. Hostile empires and despots are often called snakes, serpents, dragons or sea-monsters in the various prophetic books.

Ryan Salayer 1y ago

That was my first thought as well. “The son of Adam who crushed the serpents head” but knowing roughly what the gadston flag means makes it seem more anti sovereignty

Ryan Salayer 1y ago

I can’t tell if this is pro individual sovereignty or against it?

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Ryan Salayer 1y ago

I resemble that remark

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Ryan Salayer 1y ago

GM and a happy Thanksgiving to all!

Ryan Salayer 1y ago

Saying the quiet part out loud

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Ryan Salayer 1y ago

“Trans activism” is aging like pasteurized milk

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Ryan Salayer 1y ago

Nature is so metal #grownostr

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Ryan Salayer 1y ago

This is blatantly wrong. A 5.56 round has a bullet diameter of .224 inches and a .30-06 has a bullet diameter of .308 which means a .30-06 is a larger round

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Ryan Salayer 1y ago

Stir the pot, you know so it doesn’t burn to the bottom

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I’m planning on retiring to a rural community and orange pilling my neighbors so we can all use bitcoin peer to peer without going via fiat. Probably need to use loans or sell covered calls as well. I don’t see a single perfect solution and that’s ok I’ll just cobble it together as best I can.

Ryan Salayer 1y ago

I’ve considered using bitcoin as a way to store wealth in appreciating assets to then purchase land down the road.

I haven’t found one that is “reasonable” to me. Maybe you would feel differently. But I think in the next few years good options will become available. Wall Street is just joining the party in 2024 with the ETF launch and the first trad fi bank (Bank of New York Mellon) was given authority to custody bitcoin in September. Good options are coming.

Ryan Salayer 1y ago

I’m hopeful for more adoption with mainstream systems. It’s hard for me to justify investing heavily into something that may or may not be useful in my retirement age

Depends on what financial products are developed as bitcoin goes mainstream. Still too early as there are few lenders and they charge too much for the service and require too much bitcoin in collateral.

Ryan Salayer 1y ago

So currently there’s no real reasonable way to leverage wealth stored in bitcoin without spending Bitcoin?

Ryan Salayer 1y ago

GM nostr! Question for serious HODL people. How do you plan to leverage your stack to pay for the life you want in retirement or in life in general? #bitcoin #asknostr #hodl

Ryan Salayer 1y ago

This goes unnecessarily hard. Very metal

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Do you listen to Podcasts?

To all my followers, regardless of your opinions about me.

I need your help. Please simply answer the question "yes or no"

Ryan Salayer 1y ago

Yes

Ryan Salayer 1y ago

What the most logical way to replace retirement investing with Bitcoin stacking? #asknostr #bitcoin

Ryan Salayer 1y ago

More bullish on blackstone than I’m willing to be

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I wish I could say this. My boss' phone is the loudest ringer you've heard in your life.

Ryan Salayer 1y ago

I don’t know if it’s fair but that feels highly inconsiderate to me. I feel the same way about people talking on speaker phone in public or watching videos without headphones in public

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