Nobody cares. Even with all the 'Online safety act' stuff going on; you can scream in their face you have a sensible way out of this mess....they don't care.

For the most part humans will double down on their strategy untill they are downright forced by reality to adjust; and in some cases they rather go down with the ship.

Not long ago i contacted the developers of 'Beyond All Reason'; an opensource RTS that leverages discord heavily. I showed up, asked if they knew about Nostr, parried all their lazy remarks that disguise themselves as critiques but are actually just excuses not to think. They dont care.

Any existing community, unless you already have a sizeable controlling influence in that community, will do fuck all, they won't even consider it.

For the foreseable future, all Nostr based communities will have to be bootstrapped; build from the ground up.

And many, if not just most, will die off again . NIPs will we written and forgotten;

but those few that remain, will be the added context and marginal value gain for the next wave of attempts; less of them die off, some more take root: roots deep enough to survive any winter and ready to bloom again when conditions are correct.

I would love to see a Nostr killer-app, and it would help out a lot, but don't count on it.

Now most of us are Bitcoiners, so we sort of know this dynamic, but this time we are not all going to get rich eventually in the process, so this one is a bit harder to keep your conviction in.

And remember, the only communities on Nostr are the ones you build yourself.

looks like zap stream is down again

Facebook required friend requests before anyone could interact with your profile—no likes, comments, or messages unless they were connected.

I never had issues with spam or bots on Facebook.

But on Nostr, just like on X, my profile is already getting spammed by bots. It's annoying.

Nostr needs a friend request system.

One of the big problems with nostr is, everyone is speaking in their own voids trying their best to be "picked up". This is not going to cut it for most people at all, no one else other than the crazy believers are going to be able to operate in an environment like this.

We need to be better with discovery, remember how @buzzbot worked for a bit? But it only worked on primal cause they're the only ones to have a trending zaps feed so upfront.

Discovery should be a BIG priority for social media client devs.

One thing I noticed on Nostr is after uploading an image, if I delete the related Nostr note (via a kind:5 delete), the media still remains on the media server, example Nostr Build website .

That creates "orphaned media" that:

Wastes storage

Is no longer referenced anywhere

May be something the user wanted removed

I think media hosts like Nostr Build should push for a NIP (protocol proposal) that defines a way for hosts to:

Be notified when a note is deleted

Know which npub originally used the media

Automatically clean up unreferenced or deleted media

For example I made a draft note and uploaded this Bitcoin picture using Amethyst with media server Nostr Build but I never actually submitted the note.

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I deleted the draft and noticed the picture is still on Nostr Builds website forever.