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#DevOps Engineer with a heavy focus on #CloudOps with #Kubernetes #k3s #Rancher #Helm. Smithing my own cloud services, for the infrastructure I build, with #Kotlin #PostgreSQL #SpringBoot on #Docker #containerd #Linux #Alpine #Ubuntu. On hobby projects I'm working with #Nim #Rust #Julia #Nu #Ballerina #Nix.

Scrapyard.

It does not make any sense whatsoever to run them today, besides insanity or some rich vintage dude wants to prove something.

Damn, sorry Mr. Job, how many years have you had this job already?!! πŸ˜‚πŸ‘

It's funny how you say that, while your profile is filled with posts, quotes & boosts related to #zaps, #Bitcoin & everything else related to that topic... πŸ˜‚

Or I mean, you could define this as a "client problem", but if you do that, then nothing will ever get fixed, because every client configuration will be a "client problem" as in "not my problem" and the actual issue will persist.

Not every "client problem" is not "not your problem".

Nope, not a client problem. It depends on how you connect to the services, through which network & how many relays allow your requests to go through etc.

If it works well for you, you maybe don't have a lot of different connections & the servers are more available to you. I don't know.

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Diversity of content is lacking at the moment. (Or maybe there is no depth to the diversity.) Users joined and get bored with seeing the same topics and memes dominate the feed. And they leave.

I suggest some budget is directed toward incentivising people to consistently post short-form / micro-blog good content that is not cryptocurrency focused. (I am not against cryptocurrency, but it is still a niche topic.) Do this until we have a level of critical mass for diverse content.

How do we know when we reach the critical mass? Maybe set a target for number of MAUs that you want to reach? Personally, I prefer not to have a certain target, but to set a time limit on the incentivisation and measure the impact. MAUs before vs MAUs after. Then adapt the incentivisation and repeat. {MAU: monthly active users}

The impact of this approach will take time to show sustainable result, but this might be one of the flywheels that can sustain growth. From HubSpot: "With the flywheel, you use the momentum of your happy customers to drive referrals and repeat sales. Basically, your business keeps spinning."

And maybe slow down adding more and more to the protocol? Let all nostr clients and relays to be on par with each other on most of the NIP implementations. Big parities in NIP implementations affect user experience noticeably. {NIP: nostr implementation possibilities}

Another bonus is that when the apps are mostly at parity with regard to NIPs, they can invest their development energy on improving their apps user experience. Better user experience feeds back into the flywheel above.

Second that.

Like, I get why people are excited about #Bitcoin & shit, but come on.

Recently, I actually visited #Nostr less because anyone worth any popularity shit on #Nostr is some #Bitcoin freak talking about #Bitcoin 24/7, as if you could eat, drink & use it as a toy.

It'a really difficult to find people, who do not speak about #Bitcoin literally the entire day & don't even know what time it is, because they count everything in block time...

This is a problem that needs a proper solution. An obvious one would be to build in various effective methods of content filtering & querying. Then everyone can join.

That said, already at this moment there is too much shit content on #Nostr. For example, tons of nude shit, shitcoin scams, advertisements, other scams, etc... It's already tough to avoid this with this tiny user base, as of now.

The biggest problem I see right now is the first use experience. The first 15 minutes you use a product determines whether you continue using it or likely drop it forever.

When you just start #Nostr & you wanna see anything, all Relays have to be queried first, etc. At first, everything is empty.

Happens as well, when you delete the cache of the #Nostr app you use.

People are so used to instant access, it's probably a pretty big blocker to wait for Relays to finish loading the feed, especially in Global, basically like viewing an image in Internet Explorer during 2003.

Create merchandise, which looks weird, but in a "cool" way.

Limit its supply to a very low amount for no reason.

Make it super expensive for no reason.

This is the perfect recipe for making a brand, that seems so exclusive & "cool" that people want to join it.

This is based on the idea around how sneaker & other clothing brands are doing it. It's also similar to NFTs. Create some shit, make it weirdly limited & exaggeratingly expensive & suddenly its artifical as well as senseless exclusivity draws people in.

I think, a sub-key would only make sense, as of now, if it's for organisational reasons. Like, if you want to have a job profile without spamming it with personal stuff. However, borrowed trust in this case likely only works, if there is some way for the public to transparently see, how your sub-key is actually connected to your other key.

If you want to actually *hide* personal information, I cannot see how this would work, when you create a new profile based on the private key for your personal profile which contains compromising information. You would need to create a new profile for this to work.

At least these are my thoughts based on my assumptions. I'm far away from being a #Nostr expert, so there is a realistic chance, I might be wrong here.

Well, better one government, than a government plus a celestial North Korea. No, thank you.

Played this on Xbox ... back then.