Nostr Web Client

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Damus

We're live in Nashville! Come say hi!

Billy Boozer 1y ago

Is there a Nostr gathering tonight?

Billy Boozer 1y ago

Just made it to Bitcoin 2024

Hit me up if anyone is around!

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English Ple₿eian

#Bitcoin Conference 2024

Plebs have hopes & dreams to gain 1 Bitcoin for their lifetime generational hodl.

Conference attendees are really paying these prices just for 1 conference?

I simply don't live in the same world as any of these people.

I just find it insane.

Billy Boozer 1y ago

fwiw it was really easy to get a free ticket with the open source application.

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Yates

"Who needs Truth Social or Substack when you've got Billy Boozer and Alex Gleason leading the way with Letr? Can't wait to see what they have in store for us! 🙌 #innovators"

Billy Boozer 1y ago

We got you bro!

Nostr to the moon 🚀🌕

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Paul

We don't need killer feature or killer applications. We need simplicity and great UX. To be honest, we didn't achieveed that in using Bitcoin and still have so many challenges to get.

The integration of the two worlds or protocols is a journey, which we have to go step by step. There is an old saying which states that a journey of 10 000 miles begins with the first step. So let us go this journey, step by step.

Billy Boozer 1y ago

You are correct and generally anyone that disagrees with the basics that we need a good user experience and user interface that functions with all of the basics of social media is 100% wrong.

It is a marathon not a sprint and we’re only a mile or so into the race.

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Brunswick

I am not sure how to feel about nostr's loss of Snowden. Do we let him be, or try to solve his technical problems? It seems like tor is an excuse to move away from nostr and not a reason.

Widespread success of a social media depends on adoption by big names because that's the majority of people's reason for showing up in the first place.

For now, I say its not important to draw big names. We have a technology that is bigger than any group of celebreties, and it is continually expanding its capabilities. Eventually nostr will naturally consume and/or force adoption by all private platforms.

Billy Boozer 1y ago

Don’t discount the need for big names.

Those big names bring along the average user - then convert a percentage of those average users into creators that draw in more average users.

I don’t think Nostr is ready for prime time at the moment because there needs to be a client that functions with all the basics prior to those users being onboarded.

When you have a new protocol like this - one that introduces new paradigms - the basic functions can’t also be complex.

It creates a barrier to entry that is too high for the majority of users.

We’re building something at Letr.co to solve these issues.

From my perspective we need to lean on existing open source projects that already operate with mainstream users and integrate Nostr.

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tom

good luck with letr. out of curiosity, what's wrong with primal and amethyst?

Billy Boozer 1y ago

Thanks

Amethyst is only on Android and has no web client.

I could run an emulator but that’s way too much for any main stream user.

Primal is great and I’m a big fan of Miljan but - from my perspective it’s a wallet not a client for social interaction.

At least that’s what it does really well.

Also - I’ve personally had issue getting content to show up in the app or load another Nostr identity.

This is likely a problem with relays not the app but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been more painful than the average user should experience in order to communicate with other people.

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jack

nostr is still mainly used alongside twitter. in the best rare case, as a replacement. and only because people are running away from something about twitter they don't like.

there is nothing that people want to run to nostr for yet. zaps were promising, but bitcoin is still a hurdle (one that primal is doing the best at overcoming), and it's doubtful lightning could scale to a massive adoption moment.

nostr needs a feature or experience that's unique and sets it apart. i *think* that is the ecosystem of microapps over the long term...but it's definitely not in the short term. and that might be ok.

for twitter the initial draw was the simplicity and weirdness of 140 characters (we started with zero network effect, facebook had it all...that's built over time). later it became the conversation which lead to the "public square" (owned by a private corporation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). and then as it grew, it had a single point of control/failure people could attack.

nostr doesn't have to worry about that last bit. it's an incredible feature. but not one the average person cares about (no matter how much they yell "FREE SPEECH!"...if people actually cared about free speech, bitcoin and nostr would be all they used...they don't).

all this to say, we're not doomed. but what we think is the killer feature isn't right now. who's going to discover the one that is?

Billy Boozer 1y ago

I agree and disagree.

The biggest impediment to Nostr at the moment is the poor quality of clients.

I’ve used most of them to this point and to be very nice - they are in their nascent phase and many are unusable.

Nostr’s method of identity transfer doesn’t interoperate between Web2 and Web3 protocols well.

I’m less worried about this issue because nostr:npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 is working on it and he has a clear understanding of the task at hand.

I don’t think the next killer feature is a predicate for Nostr’s success.

I think it’s a function of interoperability and leveraging existing protocols to transition users in the simplest possible way to the new paradigm that is Nostr.

This is why we’re creating Letr.co

SMTP has provided the most ubiquitous and seamless method of communication since the inception of the internet.

Not only did it initiate many methods of identity management but it also provided a protocol that was for the most part immune to censorship.

Email (SMTP) allowed you to own your audience and move that audience to the best tool that fit your means of distribution.

Most if not all of the preceding comments seem to be core tenets of Nostr.

Own your following, own your content, own value transfer, and distribute information freely.

Last but not least - zaps have a major future.

For that future to exist bitcoin can’t be an investment tool - it must be a means to transfer value (and not to just buy a Lambo).

It needs to be transactional. This is where zaps has a potential leg up.

A sat needs to reflect the value of a penny, dime, quarter, or even a dollar.

Not a moving target that represents fractions of a fairly volatile (no shade bitcoin bros) investment vehicle.

Saying all that - over the next few months our goal with Letr is to attract millions of new users to Nostr by giving them a familiar home.

A place where there isn’t a complex language to interpret in order to use the tool - where we can focus onboarding around the quality of a community and content rather than technology.

I hope I haven’t offended too many with this Nostr rant and I appreciate that I’m a noob but I’m here to help.

⚡️❤️ Billy Boozer

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