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?

We call it the halving because the price of #Bitcoin usually gets cut in half.

What did you guys think it meant? 🤔

In theory, but it currently takes decades to permit and build reactors. We could have done this a generation ago and it didn’t happen because of anti-nuclear propaganda and NIMBYism.

The killer feature is the people.

It’s you.

I don’t come here to dick around on an app. I come to talk to all of you & see what you’re building. 🧱

Ok say the person you live with is right.

I disagree but let’s follow that thread given that’s where you are.

China and India don’t give a fuck - they’re consuming more and emitting more CO2 than ever and have zero intention of slowing down. This is undeniably clear from their actions.

Now what Daniel?

We should keep destroying our energy production in favour of renewables?

We can convince them to actually follow the western way of reducing energy consumption as we are?

The West should restrict developing countries from pursuing abundant energy sources which highly correlate with wealth production?

If the expert in your house is right - what is the solution?

nostrs killer app is bringing together likeminded people who want to make the world a better place nostr:note19nvvzr2n3ycsgtvag90yhl6fqr4yazp6luf4nwxs739h960k039qu5jgkl

Those are two separate issues. There is no “if”. We know there is a problem and that it will ultimately lead to systemic collapses and mass extinctions, even assuming we can still mitigate it somehow.

The question of what to do about it is entirely different, and of course all attempts to get governments to collaborate were always doomed to fail.

I never suggested otherwise.