No one memo’ed me?

🐸 🔫 ?

😑 ffs

didn’t realize at first why my phone wasn’t charging

at work & can’t even defend myself

😭

I’ll see if I can fix that! 🐶🐾🫡

I have a brand new iPhone and it reaches the approximate surface temperatures of the sun when on Damus for >3 mins.

Yours can too — with just 50 more relays 🌞

Build 12 fixes a crash for #[0]​ ‘s ridiculous relay list.

I think the reason the term came into use is to shame the superfluous pilferers of every sort of coin shaped ponzie scheme. Being sceptical is a good thing for people. Being accurately informed is better.

It seems like 3 problems we need to solve:

1. Content diversity

2. Topic of interest discovery

3. Make it friendly for new users

Type the hashtag and click where it says search that hashtag right under the search bar and it will take you to a feed of posts with that hashtag

Yeah, so I also just learned that. Been on here for a while lol.

We should seriously submit a PR that causes the return button to initiate the search

It's gonna sound so cheesy but I follow pretty much all of you and like you all.

So just for fun 🤞🤷

True. I was accidentally merging your situation and those other folks conceptually.

So what are they finding out? Are you basically saying the global feed is too bitcoin-oriented? I don’t use it at all, rather I find people interested in what I am, and I follow who they follow. Is that not working for them?

I think this is a problem that will be solved with time. The early users have a heavy slant toward a shared topic. That’s what pulled people in. It’s a bunch of builders who are passionate about the tech. The technology is still being built and refined. As it continues to improve, it will be more approachable to users who don’t want to figure out technical details. Lower friction for usage.

At the same time, creators from different communities are slowly finding their way here. They start posting here in addition to their other places #AlsoOnNostr, and it becomes more welcoming to new users.

You do raise many valid concerns, particularly the one about how difficult it is to find other communities. This is the kind of stuff that is part of the building and refinement process. Please keep speaking and sharing your viewpoint, it will help shape things.

#[4]​ comes across as an asshole on some things, in my perspective, but not sure he means harm. At least I’m not going to assume that.

#[5]​ it is a Bitcoin echo chamber here for the most part. I actually enjoy a Bitcoin only space, as it’s better, imo, than my experience on Twitter for Bitcoin only. I like that I can chat about anything and have fun with other Bitcoiners. However most of us are nerds for Bitcoin haha so branching out and bringing other topics it’s much of a focus. Nostr is still young and clunky. That combined with us Bitcoin Maxis is likely intimidating for others.

I believe the content and experience will grow, but unlikely for a while. Like you are already doing, continue to be the change you want to see.

Was going to DM you ferret, but it’s better to shine light and not talk behind others backs. No hard feelings Corn, plenty of people tell me I’m an asshole. Likely it’s just me misunderstanding tone and intentions over text. Will still zap ⚡️ your great memes when I see em.

🫂🧡💜

Asking people to “not talk about x” isn’t even really possible which is beautiful. I think what people are hungry for is a frictionless way to discover topics. A frictionless way to find relays that have content they want. Right now discoverability is hard. A lot of opportunity for builders.

I have seen a few people join nostr and talk about what most here would call "shitcoins" and get flamed off of nostr as though it were sport. Not scammers per say just people interested in other than BTC. I encourage people to talk about whatever they want and not be piled on.

Talking about bitcoin is fine. I like Bitcoin. Talk about whatever you want (bitcoin, coffee, religion, politics). That's the beauty of this place. Just pointing out that it's repetitive and boring to talk about the same thing like this is one giant subreddit.

Yes, follow those people who are DM-ing you. Sounds like you’ve made some new friends. Good luck 🤙

#[4]​ seems to be saying that those DMs are indicative that you’ve got valid connections going on here. No?

I’m super curious about what is going well and not well nocoiner or non-bitcoiner experience on Nostr. Maybe it’s just nascent and needs more non-BTC content still? It sounds like there’s a significant group among your connections though!

I’m curious how the early days of Twitter compare? I wasn’t using Twitter then, but maybe it was also uninviting to new users because of echo chamber effects? Or maybe not? Obviously bitcoin wasn’t a thing yet…

I think nostr is still waaayy early in the adoption curve. It has the potential to take on S-curve adoption, like Bitcoin has done to some extent, but that may take time. So from that standpoint, I’m not surprised that a lot of the content centers on topics like Bitcoin and decentralized protocols.

For Bitcoiners, it can be tough to find community of people to talk stuff out with. Bitcoin Twitter is terrible, yet the mainstream media doesn’t have an educated approach to writing about Bitcoin. So I get it. At the same time, Nostr won’t reach S-curve adoption if it remains a “Bitcoin thing.” So let’s all try to stack notes about other random shit 😜

We talked about this on the bitcoin review podcast today. One way is to have a signup link with a different bootstrap relay list of relays that ban the word bitcoin and freedom and such