In my experience, it is somewhat confusing for non-technically minded people to grasp the protocol side of things. I guess this aspect needs to be explained in a way that is easy to understand.

The way to sell the protocol to people would be to build some amazing apps on it, because I don't think the average person would care as much about the protocol itself, as long as they get the basics. Just like most people probably don't understand how the smtp protocol works, even through they use email every day.

"Your keys, your content - works with any platform running on nostr." sort of thing.

while I agree it would be good to have more content to explain nostr, it won't really matter given the current onboarding and product experience. it's way too confusing for folks, and generally not satisfying instantly. people will and do churn out.

if there's one thing to focus on (for the social media use case) it's search. both for people, but more importantly, topics. Twitter won because of search. it wasn't a social network. it was an information network, and it excelled at real-time because of real-time search. that's a base requirement now.

what nostr adds, and what will make it sticky, is the multi-app/use-case ecosystem. but each use case is going to have different needs for attracting people to it. search is table stakes for the social media one. it won't matter how good the tutorial content is until this is done right.

nostr has the benefit right now of having a completely open and wild API. that matters as every other service is closing down. it's perfectly OK that we mostly have devs and bitcoin-obsessives at the moment. we have time to get all the kinks out and make something that's truly hard to replicate. where the only way to compete will be to join.

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If you need to make a video to explain a social network, it probably needs more refinement.

Perhaps less focus on the nostr protocol element, and more on the experiences it can offer.

I'm not whining about it but I think one of the reasons nostr will take a long time to go mainstream is that it is often like shouting into the void, or an echo chamber with no echo.

Someone with a lot of followers can post a picture of dinner, or feet or a purple bird gets immediate attention and re-posts, but another person with less followers can post something of immense importance and not get noticed.

Its a conundrum that I'm not sure can ever be solved.

Do you guys like olives?

OK, so you guys showed me McDonald's jacked prices at least 130% on the core budget item: the mcchicken. Mentally recalculating McDs as "literally more than twice as expensive is a doozy, sure but what I really wanna know: did they do any shrinkflation on top of that to really wring out the margin? Smaller patties, cups, fries, cheese or something? Or was it all just pure price action?

Yep, complete control over the process

If we created a Cards Against Humanity game for Nostr, what would it be called? Nostr For Humanity? Nostr Against Centralization? What be some of the black cards? How about some white cards? And lastly, which developer is going to turn this into an app? 👀

The very best bio-char comes out of hemp, so we simply grow the bio-mass on site in greenhouses using the fastest growing form of bio-mass on earth. The outputs of this become biodiesel or electricity and bio-char to increase outputs in ALL our gardens. Part of what makes hemp superior also is the the bio-char produced from it can also be used to manufacture graphene, creating yet another locally sourced, organically grown building material. Beyond what can be done with the hemp fibers for manufacturing everything from cars, planes, and houses with it as the sourced building materials too.

Not really much at all, considering the contents.

Relay’s presumably? Same as it is now. Some relays will opt in to keep data longer.

alright who’s building nostrpedia?

Ok Nostriches, let’s have some fun!

Give me your best answers 🤣😜

#asknostr

#nostr

#playtime

I've never had a Twitter account (nor IG, FB etc). Very cool that my first social media experience is with all of you wonderful folks.

Clinging on to twitter because it was once good is like clinging onto old friends you no longer have anything in common with. Same with reddit. You wouldn't go there with your Bitcoin questions anylonger.

Let them go and move forward.

THE White Paper?

Been thinking that would be a good starting place to learn about cryptocurrency.

I don’t have to know anything else, this pic alone is enough to tell me The man is evil

Molten zinc spray will melt our aluminium, I expect. Maybe not literally, but enough to make it sag and creep under load. Steel would be fine, but need it sandblasted and perfectly dry for adhesion. So while this may be possible in manufacturing on land, its not maintainable "in the field".

There are a lot of different paints and coatings we could use. I wouldn't attempt to choose just one, but its a mature industry with huge economies of scale and many niches.

I'm a monster... I was going to setup my own LN node, but got called away and haven't gone back to it.

Okay, where would you recommend for hosted wallets?

Building materials for seasteads

The high seas are (theoretically) open and free, but come with many construction challenges. Waves and winds should be familiar to all of us. I'm going to talk about construction materials options in the presence of the unholy trinity of biofouling, chloride corrosion, and UV.

Aluminium. Lightweight, inexpensive, easily recycled, handles UV well. Moderate difficulty to work and to repair. No particular resistance to biofouling if left in contact with water, but is not vulnerable to burrowing. Is destroyed very quickly by chloride corrosion. Not a practical option unless you are in a low-chloride environment like the Great Lakes of North America.

Cupronickel (including gunmetal, admiralty brass and similar). Moderately easily worked and recycled. Heavy. Invulnerable to UV. Extreme resistance to biofouling (toxic to invertebrates but not mammals or plants). Decent strength in tension compression and shear. Decent creep resistance. Horribly expensive. Resistant but not immune to chloride attack - no crevice corrosion or pitting, but sheds material very slowly across its entire surface. Combined with its cost this is like watching banknotes blow over the side. Can be practical for piping and similar when too small or inaccessible for inspection and maintainence.

Polymers (plastics). Lightweight, inexpensive. Uniquely vulnerable to UV, this can be managed with coatings, free-radical stabilisers and UV-absorbent fillers such as titanium dioxide. Mostly low strength, lower stiffness and no creep resistance unless reinforced with glass fibre, carbon fibre, or metal fibre. Easily recycled... unless you add fillers or reinforcement: you need both. Good resistance to biofouling. Essentially immune to chloride attack (though metal fittings and reinforcement might be vulnerable). Cheap and practical to build, moderately easy to repair, impossible to recycle.

Steel, coated. Very easily worked and repaired, moderately easily recycled. Cheap. Moderately heavy. Immune to UV. Coating can provide good resistance to biofouling. Excellent strength in tension, compression and shear. Excellent creep resistance. Quite vulnerable to chloride corrosion and related sulphate corrosion, can be managed with constant inspection and maintainance. Best option for working boats / infrastructure that expect to be damaged and repaired almost constantly.

Steel, stainless 316. Easily worked and repaired, moderately easily recycled. Expensive. Moderately heavy. Immune to UV, highly resistant to biofouling, more so if coated. Excellent strength in tension, compression and shear. Excellent creep resistance. Resistant to chloride and sulphate corrosion, doubly so if coated. This is not true of the cheaper 304 stainless and similar. Best all-rounder if you can afford it.

Your thoughts? Other options I may have overlooked?

Here is the same 3D model without glass and with an added elevator shaft. The idea is having the main apartment below deck and a ladder or elevator in a protected shaft that can access all three levels.

While I idealize an enlightened, stateless society, I recognize that humanity is not yet ready for this, and if we thrust them into such a world, they will descend into savagery.

Exactly- a bunch of so called plebs adoring a multi-billionaire ?

Why r these guys always popping up around electronic payment systems? PayPal, square, cashapp, now elon wants X to be a finance app??

It’s just- can these bloated, out of touch megalomaniacal psychopaths just leave bitcoin alone?

All I’m asking.