I have been writing in bits and pieces. Although not many people are receptive. Also - still trying to wrap my head around the various ideas.
That said, the specific idea I was referring to in the note above was for some sort of Nostr “builder’s council” where various Nostr businesses come to together & pool some money to fund some co-marketing initiatives that they may not be able to afford on their own, but could do together.
Thanks for clarifying
Not sure. Maybe his dignity and legacy?
He seems to care somewhat, having tried hard to change his image
wtf are u talking about?
They’re just links to prior notes on primal.
Award for the dumbest take. Thanks. Muted.
Not quite. He said it was a different approach, and for the purpose of decentralisation, and growing from the ground up, it’s certainly superior
This is a good point. And maybe that’s a blessing of some sort
Too complex. Who’s gonna manage that, who decides where the money goes, how do you measure success, what’s the economic incentive for the individual contributors.
Stuff like that is always 1000x harder than it sounds
There’s nothing “weird” about it.
Decentralisation comes with clear drawbacks in the marketplace. Nostr may be superior technically, in almost EVERY way, but there is no coordinated communications effort.
I posted about this two weeks ago, and half the responses were: “oh you’re too bearish on Nostr” or “look at all the cool tech we’re building”.
And that’s precisely my point. The focus has ALL been on the tech (and rightly so). But my entire argument was that the gaze needs to begin to shift towards communications & go to market. There’s no point building the coolest car if nobody knows about it.
Unfortunately, I don’t know if the nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f people agree with this (they seem to be the only org funding collective initiatives). They just ignored the post despite tagging them.
Either OpenSats needs to fund some marketing efforts, or these efforts ultimately come down to the businesses building on Nostr. The best option would be BOTH.
I have some other ideas. I’ll DM you and see what you think.
In the meantime, GOLDEN opportunities like this are being completely missed or just not taken advantage of. Nostr should’ve grown by a million users this week, not fucking Blue Sky.
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I spoke about this last week.
The benefit of decentralisation comes with some drawbacks backs. Coordination around comms being one.
Anyway. I expect more of this shit to happen in the coming years; so we’ll have more chances.
Perhaps another approach is at the company/product level, not product. Much easier to have a message from Primal or Satlantis than it is from “Nostr”.
Extrapolating that out…The more companies / products we have building/built ON Nostr, the more they can go to market with a clear message (individually).
Each message appeals to different groups of people, but ultimately they each find their way to Nostr.
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I had a really good write up on X but don’t have the link coz I can’t access the app 😂😂
But go check there. It was from a few days ago
I actually think Facebook is immune to anything the Brazilians can do, so won’t affect their profit one bit.
X is relatively easy to ban, so are nostr apps, blue sky, etc
But they ban any of FB’s stuff here, there would be a nationwide revolution the same day
WhatsApp can and does. But it doesn’t have the social discovery of an IG or X.
It would be suicide for that clown.
Let’s see what unfolds.
And I can neither confirm nor deny that
This is probably an unpopular opinion…but let’s see..
Elon’s smartest move right now would actually be to ally with Zuck…
Hear me out…
An overwhelmingly large percentage of the Brazilian population literally LIVE on WhatsApp and IG. I’m not just talking their friends, and scrolling. I mean this is how almost EVERY business runs. They don’t have websites down here. They build their entire digital presences on those two apps.
If Zuckerberg’s transformation is real (dunno if I’m convinced, but who knows - crazier things have happened) and he allows for the kind of content X allowed to spread in Brazil, this Alexandre monkey would be STUCK.
There’s no WAY he could shut access to that down, without the entire country stopping. Literally nothing would work.
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This is a GREAT moment for Nostr, but we’ve still got a loooooong way to go before the network and the apps on it are robust.
In fact, similar to Wikileaks in the early days, we probably don’t want to draw too much attention right now to Nostr apps bc while the protocol itself is hard to censor, as was just seen, it’s very easy to censor an app.
Granted, it’s a bit like playing wackamole with Nostr, but once again, we’re not there yet. There probably needs to be 10x more *really good* apps, before we could even hope to sustain a forced shutdown in any country for that matter.
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Before anyone says “yeah but they’re only stopping themselves from getting on Nostr”
Duh…obviously. But these maniacs are also fucking over the very people who live in these countries and require some form of connectivity.
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So anyway. Possibly an unpopular opinion, but I think this would be a very interesting strategic play.
And if you play out the scenario, there’s a good chance that idiot de Moraes here in Brazil ends up trapped between:
1. Having to allow X to operate again, or
2. trying to apply the same pressure to WhatsApp / IG
3. allowing IG/Whatsapp to spread uncensored info, and thus losing his ability to censor anyway
All three scenarios, he loses.
Curious to hear what a few people think on this.
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