I had given up cell phone for good before you got me started (again) with #nostry tweets .. and now you want me tin foil my bald head .. good đ
If you want to build your own brand as a citizen journalist.. post on #nostr and set up your personal website with npub.pro ..
People can comment and zap directly on your website .. plus follow different hashtags that you post around ..
#bitcoin is for the rich ..
#nostr is for the creatives
Btw .. its a moot point .. because having discovered #nostr .. there is no way for you to go back to X :-) .. it will feel like a black and white TV after discovering Vision Pro :-) ..
Almost everywhere in tech , the late starters win .. because they get better tech and evolved leaders !
Points in case
- Linux vs rest of the OS
- git vs all the other version management tools
- Google vs Yahoo and excite
- chrome vs Internet explorer
- iPhone vs Blackberry and Nokias
If #bitcoin was the radius , #nostr is the surface area of the sphere..
I AM A NOSTR NOOB, TEACH ME WISE ONES
I want to love Nostr and use it more. My problem is discoverability - itâs very hard to recreate a social graph + algo that beats Twitter. I see less content here and people see my posts less, so I have fewer conversations. How do I bootstrap the nostr graph without so much drudgery?
Help nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a nostr:npub1zuuajd7u3sx8xu92yav9jwxpr839cs0kc3q6t56vd5u9q033xmhsk6c2uc and anyone else I know in this place
Make a fresh anonymous ID on Twitter and one on nostr .. and then compare yourself where you are getting more traction - on the basis of your content rather than the network you already have there ..
Mathematically speaking , since Twitter has half a billion users verses say 50 k on nostr .. discoverability is lot harder there ..
As for algos ..X algos only help the ones that make more money for them .. you sure don't wanna be in that grind .. and exactly why #nostr is the best ..
Why Nostr is strugglingâŠ
There is too much of an overlap with X, not only in the feature sets among the primary applications, but more importantly, in the kind of audience that Nostr is catering to.
Sure..censorship resistance at the protocol level is a differentiator, but the to the average person, you may as well be talking gibberish. They donât know wtf a protocol is in the first place - let alone why it matters for censorship resistance to happen at that level, or more importantly, WHY they should trust Nostr to deliver on that promise. âBcoz nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m said soâ is not an argument.
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Bluesky is a case in point here.
Itâs got a VERY similar feature set to X, claims to be open source / censorship resistant (similar narrative to Nostr), and is growing MUCH faster than Nostr, bc it has captured a key audience, ie; people with TDS and EDS (Elon Derangement Syndrome).
Iâve been on there a few times, and the content quality is enough to make you want to throw upâŠ.but at the very least, itâs working for that kind of content, and for the people who want it.
I donât have a direct answer here..but I think itâs something to do with the over-emphasis on technicals.
nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 mentioned increasing the emphasis on design the other day. I agree this is a move in the right direction. Weâre taking a very design-focused approach with nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3 (weâll have ALOT more to show in the next 6wks).
That being said, itâs not enough.
IMO, Nostr is technically mature enough for us to go out there and talk about it to more people, and build a narrative BEYOND the 500 of us that are talking to each other on here.
People like nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft or nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc can correct me if I am wrong here. Maybe thereâs alot more to do technically.
But if I am right, Iâd like to see more initiatives that are marketing oriented being supported by nostr:npub17xvf49kht23cddxgw92rvfktkd3vqvjgkgsdexh9847wl0927tqsrhc9as and nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f and other coalitions. Maybe we even need a council of Nostr businesses, who together pool some funds to help drive some marketing initiatives?
Whatever the case, we need to expand upon the Nostr narrative, make it more compelling and speak to more people about it.
At the very least, we have to conquer then Bitcoiners. If we canât get the segment who are into freedom money onto the freedom of speech network, weâre DOA. Thatâs a first step.
I know nostr:npub1hz5alqscpp8yjrvgsdp2n4ygkl8slvstrgvmjca7e45w6644ew7sewtysa is working on a very cool initiative in relation to this. The Nostr Booth is IMO a great way to make Nostr more ârealâ for bitcoiners by having a physical presence at all the conferences.
I know nostr:npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s7r50e8 + nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 are doing some Podcast outreach. Thatâs super important too. nostr:npub16vrkgd28wq6n0h77lqgu8h4fdu0eapxgyj0zqq6ngfvjf2vs3nuq5mp2va and crew are putting on Nostriga. Amazing. nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr / nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg are doing great things with nostr:npub1spdnfacgsd7lk0nlqkq443tkq4jx9z6c6ksvaquuewmw7d3qltpslcq6j7, etc on the content side. Iâve got some things up my sleeve personally which I will begin to do once nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3 is in a position to represent a NEW kind of Nostr-product..
But we need MOAR..
AndâŠwe also need to find another angle that is NOT about censorship resistance. Thatâs clearly not working against X.
I donât know the EXACT narrative or spin, but it has to be more ârunning towardsâ than ârunning fromâ.
More white pill, less black pill.
Anyway.
I will probably turn this into an article. Iâve been thinking more and more about âwriting in publicâ as we build Satlantis, and sharing more about how weâre thinking about growing a ânetwork productâ on top of a ânetwork protocolâ.
If you think this was valuable, please repoast so more people can see and get involved in the discussion.
Nostr is struggling because they chose social to test the protocol .. everyone hates social or not ! .... but no one wants more of it ! Besides the network effects are impossible to break ..
That said , if it survived social experiment, then sky is the limit .. both technically as well as to market standpoints ..
Yes .. I haven't paid anything todate .. but someone must be paying to the lightning servers!
Both the world wars were fought before 1971 .. the crucial year of unpegging .. since then .. at least there is no nuclear war ..
Is there a credible evidence that wars (at global scale ) have increased under fiat standard verses before ( under gold standard )
Saying this cuz humans seems to be fighting ever since Alexander and Gengiz khan .. old classics be it Ramayana or Mhabharata .. or modern ones like LOTR or GOT .. are all about wars ..
Yes .. as long as you can buy #bitcoin :-)
#asknostr a tangential thought inspired by nostr:npub1s8a9ku988f53cmncsg7sxhlugnmt2p0x7qmrwavm6dh853g4887ss69u5q's dining/stacking strat
For those of you who try to tip servicepeople in sats, how exactly do you present to them your intention?
People like me who have so far been too much of a pussy to do it in any fashion
Pussies
Iâm thinking âCan i tip you with lightning?â is a decent assembly of wards, but maybe not
I think the service people should leave a bar code on the table .. if they are fine taking lightning payments ..
Bottom center icon - lightning icon ..
Thats how being a public ledger helps .. no privacy on the base layer ..
Nostr has happy people !
First thing Yakihonne needs to do it make the first page load superfast .. remove all features from first page .. a very simple page ..no grapics .. no curations etc ..
Every additional second loses half the users ..
I dont understand what is the issue with #Apple for not letting epic appstrore on iOS ! Is it security ?? #askNostr
I have Galaxy store , F-droid , Obtanium , and Zap-Store running my Android tablet (Samsung galaxy FE 7) ... and I don't even have Play Store ( or google account) .. and it is the most secured tablet on Android - knox security ..
#bitcoin branding is the most powerful message that a corporation may send to its customers , vendors and investors. And to regulators ..