I think there is an important point here. We do need both user and content discovery to work better on nostr. Centralized platforms do a lot to help boost folks who’s content or accounts are getting engagement. Make an amazing video and you’ll get millions of views in tiktok as a nobody. Write the witty tweet and it goes viral.

Specifically they also do a lot so that new people find content and people to follow. When new users post they get engagement and response very quickly. Nostr does some of this.

A year ago interviewed folks I found on Tumblr who had talked about scuttlebutt, but had gone back to tumblr. Their main reason for returning to tumblr rather than scuttlebutt was because they got comments and reposts with tumblr.

Engagement matters.

When I show non-crypto folks nostr they often go away because they don’t find their people or content. Not because of zaps or the design of the apps or the way nostr works. They don’t and aren’t going to care about Bitcoin. For nostr to succeed we need to pay more attention to those early days from deciding they’re going to try nostr to it becoming a habit to use every day.

I think there is an important point here. We do need both user and content discovery to work better on nostr. Centralized platforms do a lot to help boost folks who’s content or accounts are getting engagement. Make an amazing video and you’ll get millions of views in tiktok as a nobody. Write the witty tweet and it goes viral.

Specifically they also do a lot so that new people find content and people to follow. When new users post they get engagement and response very quickly. Nostr does some of this.

A year ago interviewed folks I found on Tumblr who had talked about scuttlebutt, but had gone back to tumblr. Their main reason for returning to tumblr rather than scuttlebutt was because they got comments and reposts with tumblr.

Engagement matters.

When I show non-crypto folks nostr they often go away because they don’t find their people or content. Not because of zaps or the design of the apps or the way nostr works. They don’t and aren’t going to care about Bitcoin. For nostr to succeed we need to pay more attention to those early days from deciding they’re going to try nostr to it becoming a habit to use every day.

GM #nostr ! Monday isn’t so bad when you review the zaps you got from a note full of typos 😂⚡️💜🤗🤪 have a great one ya’ll! #norstr lol

Never heard of it 🫣 and I’ve been on here everyday 😅

advertising for Nostr again?

Get in loser. we're stacking zaps.

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Not sure if this feature is controversial or not, I've added a "Last seen" label:

I'd rather not have this information, but it's already out there, I just made it visible.

Everything you do on nostr is public, even if you store something encrypted it is still linked to your npub. Clients can prevent this with separate keys that are not linked to your npub but I'm not sure if all clients do this today.

Hopefully this at least raises some awareness about leaked activity on nostr.

Are zaps not a thing anymore?

What did I miss? Why can’t I zap any posts? 😨