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Is there a web client with the functionality of Amethyst? I feel like I'm missing something obvious.

When these whales dump coin, we have to buy it from them. They don't want crypto, they want toilet paper. We must give them what they want.

nostr:npub13ql75nq8rldygpkjke47y893akh5tglqtqzs6cspancaxktthsusvfqcg7 uses and recommends #GrapheneOS.

GrapheneOS blocks Curry's No Agenda Mastodon instance after a spat with the admin over calling Micay a lunatic. Also after admitting that the instance members never really did or said any hateful things.

Now people, including Curry, are worried that GrapheneOS devs will have an emotional freakout and brick their devices.

Yeah, me too now, kinda. This thin-skinned tantrum shit is getting old.

Dude's going to be on Rogan again talking about crazy GOS devs now. JFC people...

I had forgotten about the utter hilarity of reading a crypto news feed.

IS THIS THE END OF BTC???!!??!?

DOGE TO THE MOON!>!>>>??!

NEW TRON LISTING SIGNALS BIG THINGS FOR MASS ADOPTION!!11BBQ!!!

They'll probably try to squash anything that might compete with their fed shitcoin. We should expect similar behavior in the future.

I set my kid up with nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm and nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 so I can send him sats. I might have messed up his mind, though. He turned down $0.97 in change, but got super excited about 200 sats hitting his wallet. #stacksats4lyfe

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Biggest complaints:

- Bitcoin echo chamber / not enough variety of content

- Difficult to use (my guess is these people have only tried it once 8 months ago lol..)

- Feeds not busy enough

- Toxic to web 3

My thoughts:

I bet we can solve a lot of these complaints just by asking people to select some topics to follow in onboarding and doing away with global entirely, or make it an optional thing. It seems global is responsible for turning people off because they see a bunch of spam / too much bitcoin content and or some other crap.

Topics solves some of this - they will see more focused content.

Better navigation UX can help - like browsing hashtags (see primal).

The network effects thing IS a challenge. Have to have users to create content and have to have content to attract users. Lists could help here. Even something as suggesting a list of RSS feeds that post on Tech news for example would be helpful. We already have RSS feeds for all sorts of stuff but they are difficult to surface.

Engaging with non-bitcoin content can help too (if you find it interesting, probably don’t want to force it).

Other than that I am not sure how to get more non-bitcoin users here other than creating a ā€œsafe spaceā€ for them where they don’t see that type of content at all. Whether that’s a bitcoin-free relay or a client that specifically mutes bitcoin terms via a pre-defined (user can still modify) mute list, or something else I can’t think of atm. nostr:note1j5cx3j3h7prnr46yyfa4akllsjach4qxhnzu0tu4pcgh3afcj0qs5rd0w8

Being new to Nostr, I missed the heavy bitcoiner stuff or whatever it was. I just see a ton of potential for the protocol. However, talking to people about using Nostr, I get a lot of, "LOL, no." The FOSS crowd should be all over it, but they just dismiss it immediately. Community creation could fix that. They'd log in and see a feed of familiar content instead of the chaos of global. Personally, I like the randomness, but the reality is that a lot of people aren't looking for stuff outside their comfort bubble. Hashtags kind of work in the meantime. Searching and following them isn't obvious on some of the clients, though.

Okay, I'm all in on Nostr.

Unfortunately, trying to explain the process of getting a client, dealing with keys, and setting up LN stuff has isolated me socially in a way I've not experienced since that time I fell naked down the stairs on national television while shitting my pants and playing the tuba.

The "algorithm me harder, Daddy" crowd will never give this a shot.

I think I'm Nostr-ing properly-ish.