“The challenge of a social network has never been really that on the technical level. People don’t join a social network because of how many users a server can support, but rather the users and content that shows up there. It’s a social problem above all else — something well-known to anybody who has built their version of Twitter at a hackathon (though sadly populated by nothing but ghosts of the creator).”
Have tried nos2x-fox, will check this one out too
Who is going to #Nostrica and is also working on relays? Curious about what you're working on. We here at https://Nos.social are going, let's chat 🤙🏽
Mozilla's Pledge for a Healthy Internet has a lot Nostr development culture can learn from. Thinking about this after seeing more misogyny and racist hate speech here.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/
"The open, global internet is the most powerful communication and collaboration resource we have ever seen. It embodies some of our deepest hopes for human progress. It enables new opportunities for learning, building a sense of shared humanity, and solving the pressing problems facing people everywhere.
Over the last decade we have seen this promise fulfilled in many ways. We have also seen the power of the internet used to magnify divisiveness, incite violence, promote hatred, and intentionally manipulate fact and reality. We have learned that we should more explicitly set out our aspirations for the human experience of the internet. We do so now.
We are committed to an internet that includes all the peoples of the earth — where a person’s demographic characteristics do not determine their online access, opportunities, or quality of experience.
We are committed to an internet that promotes civil discourse, human dignity, and individual expression.
We are committed to an internet that elevates critical thinking, reasoned argument, shared knowledge, and verifiable facts.
We are committed to an internet that catalyzes collaboration among diverse communities working together for the common good."
For core keeping up to date on major news: Reuters
Been watching this almost daily. From a product management POV it's part of the immense task of finding product market fit which means a mix of savvy UX and inclusive pluralist appeal to a wide variety of people. Janky alphas and betas can't sustain much recurring use.
The tech-centered protocol culture here has a huge capacity for this as long product and design craft also come on board to take on wider user needs and requirements for distributed web cooperation, to support deep pluralistic inclusive experience, and increase overall cultural diversity.
It's still early days. All this launch data so far in this chart, the rate of growth, offers validation that there's a there-there to further cultivate. But full-on community-centered product strategy and design are required, in addition to foresight in how the engineering of the architecture can support wider needs. Any good product so much more than the technical architecture, the tech side of things is maybe 20% of the solution fit... you need research, product strategy, design, marketing, community engagement, etc.
Just like Mosaic was the client app to demo HTTP viability and validate it, it wasn't until Netscape that we got a better product-market fit for HTTP to cross the chasm. So many products fail because they get stuck within this early adopter geek side of the chasm, and fail to connect with 90% of the potential users.
Edited notes in Nostr!
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Product validation signals are always interesting to note — latest notcing is that Ledger's STAX hardware based wallet (designed by Apple's iPod designer) sold out it first run, now back ordered until Fall 2023 or later. Hardware for dweb is going to be critical, capital intensive, but essential to viable data ownership cultures in the dweb pluriverse.
We've been talking about algo relay-services here at Nos w/ #[4] reviving Weinberger's cluetrain concept now of really doing "small parts loosely joined" picking up on microservices from early 2000s… renewing that concept in todays' dweb architecture headspace. The hangover of centralized headspace may take many time to get over. Working dweb demos are the aspirin.
Ah ha, got it. Didn't discover that UX until just seeing your reply. Tout that on initial install or add section to About.
Really wish #Iris had a back button. Not having it almost breaks regular use UX.
Given how much Nostr comes from Secure Scuttlebutt there's a much more complex story than this that weaves a lot more history and culture beyond the niche that Nostr is so far. It's important to understand the lineages in open source cultural commons.
#ContextRestoration