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My team is looking at nostr to build a slack for devs, startups etc. We have already built a Discord alternative called Catalyze on Dfinity’s Internet Computer chain. Catalyze.one. Some have suggested we port that to Nostr as well. Lastly we built a Reddit for gamers and anime fans on the Sui chain. Gilder.io. Lots to do and happy to discuss what to go after first.
I will be streaming this while I work this morning and reliving my childhood.. Thanks nostr:npub13ldzrxwy8x066ll5zf45qtcltms40ld7fsy4rejdlcc64my80lcslchmy5
Great movie. Good choice.
Good morning. 
Thanks for the zap!!
https://apple.news/AJTMsYTrIS8O9aKmNqxy_pQ.
2023 one of hottest on record. Not great. How can we use nostr to impact this? There seems to be a decent amount of awareness. It’s the action we seem to lack.
We need to get an independent in the White House. Both parties are broken it seems. Too closely tied up with corporations and wealthy donors.
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In my fiat job, I just launched a $1M lending campaign for Old Salt Co-Op—an amazing community-driven, community-owned food system infrastructure project in Montana. It has brought in $129k in the first 20 minutes. And I'm floored.
Had to tell my #nostriches.
#grownostr #foodstr #regenerativeagriculture #foodfreedom
https://gosteward.com/projects/old-salt-co-op/building-more-than-a-meat-company-stage-one
Very cool. Good for you!!! Montana is a cool place. I am trying to convince my family to move there.
I agree normies is not ideal or fair. Mainstream or volume users is less negative. I do think the idea of Nostr thematic communities will be a better way to grow and differentiate it from X et al.
One giant worldwide Nostr which is heavily weighted to all things BTC wont work very easily. But micro social networks organized by communities or topical areas would allow people to find their tribe. Posts that are thematic stay on in that micro community and general posts where the masses would or may care could be funneled to a general purpose community which could be the highlight reel from the micro communities.
I think btc or bust for nostr’s success will not be as successful as one might hope. Mainstream users (aka normies) want key features/unique experiences, value props (does it solve a key problem) and then economic incentives.
Few probably think btc is the key to anything in their immediate futures.
It is not even clear that 100s of million of people care enough about owning their data, privacy, and the ability to carry on without govt control at this point.
While really important issues those are more complex conversations which take time and application maturity to have.
Explaining everything nostr/btc can do is likely to overwhelm normies.
Start with the basics of a conversation, the hello. Help them solve their problems in a unique and engaging way, then you have the trust needed to expand the conversation.
Think about chatting on a 1st date vs asking someone to marry you. You cannot start there. You have to put in the time and earn the right to ask that question.
Crypto has made the same error. Everything is on chain and this is the best way to live and work. So far that narrative is not getting 100s of millions or billions of users to adopt those apps.
I think it can once the conversation moves to simpler and less significant buy in requirements. The same is true of Nostr.
Humans like to nibble, to dabble. Put their toe in the water. Etc. So first experiences will make or break things from a repeat use perspective.
While the same few 10-20 million people (total swag) like to jump into the deep end of the pool you need 100s of millions more to change how the world works (in terms of adoption)
So build new types of apps on nostr along with cloning ones that need to be cloned/improved. Make the UI/UX seamless, beautiful, idiot proof.
In addition to the above UI/UX work I would say Relay scaling and Relay economics is a key pain point. A hobby network wont scale to 10s or 100s of millions and the bills have to be paid.
Sure. Thanks!
