GM Nostriches! Hope you have an awesome day!

The problem is about functionality.

When I don't want to get tracked, or for the part of my life that does not need an audience, I use other measures, adopt different behaviours, and the last thing I want is to write anything that stays there without control, right?

You don't need a protocol that allows this kind of communion when you need to be private.

On the other hand, when you want to share content, you need people to have a consistent experience and control over your posts.

The monetisation part is also meh.

And without the proper instruments and audience, it all comes down to people sharing random sentences and simps sending a few sats.

And the most of the content is there to say how cool is nostr.

A lot of nothingness.

So what's there? Apps. But apps built on the top of a protocol hardly provide any value if not a bunch of degens hoping for airdrops and making cash on the next run.

And even biting the anti-censorship part, let's say for journalists or refugees. When they send out a message, who is the audience?

The users of that specific app, for that specific platform. It doesn't resonate much.

There should be less talking and better perspectives on developing a platform that delivers features and functionality enough to appeal to a bigger audience.

Are you people here who are passionate about Bitcoin in it to free themselves from the centralised system or just another means to invest?

I must admit that I'm struggling to find a decent use case for #nostr as protocol.

The clients are often inconsistent, which makes the user experience poor or impaired. Some are extremely capable, others are basic.

Also, where are the old posts? They are lost somewhere and hardly loaded. There is no separation between media and text notes, which makes it hard for artists to showcase their work.

The filtering by hashtag is okay, but more is needed. The scrolling becomes a lot heavy after a while.

I might find it interesting as a coder, but that's different from my goal here at the moment. Also, the conversations with "notes and reply" are suboptimal because the notifications point to a specific point of the discussion. Then it is all about digging your way back to the original note.

No censorship is fantastic, but there is no spam protection, either. More control over your own content would be handy.

I'm not defending or supporting any bird, but this is far from being an alternative.

I'm not giving up yet, but it doesn't work for me so far.

Would you rather know or not know? Once you are see you can never unsee, and you will forever live knowing all the imperfects. Corruptness. Injustice. Darkness. Evil.

Or not know and live a care free life. Enjoying the little things because you don’t know.

So, here is a thought. If free speech is one of the most powerful concepts ever created, and if NOSTR is the only social platform which truly allows free speech, doesn't that mean NOSTR will be HUGE once people become aware that there is a place where they can have normal conversations about topics which the media have basically banned? Doesn't seem far fetched that touting Free Speech is enough to seriously put NOSTR on the map!