For me the UX is good

I’ll stay here 🤜

Am I the only one not worried that Nostr isn’t receiving an instant flood of millions of users and who always thought this was going to be a very long haul?

Honestly, do we even think the protocol could handle millions of daily users right now? I kinda think it would be a mess at this stage but we are getting close, imo.

Am I just naive here? 😆

Infrastructure will always cost. Free is an illusion that the major platforms are masters at selling. That indeed is hard to compete with. It's harder to sell people on having to pay to use a service rather than be the product themselves. People don't realize how such models have shaped things like YouTube. Advertisers ultimately control what's on YouTube these days. Users paying would allow users to decide as a free market. Ads seem to always lead to a fiat type of environment where everything is murky. But I'm not sure how else to do "free." Context based ads would be a good start. That would probably be the closest we would get to pleasing everyone (users, creators, and advertisers).

Being a content speck on a rock surrounded by an infinity of infinities is an actual miracle.

If nostr isn't dead, react to this note.

My main point is that I don't think Nostr is attracting people who don't live for Bitcoin and software development. Maybe I'm just not seeing these people. Although, I think I have the major relays added that new people would likely use.

Either way, telling me to create all the content isn't really a solution. We need more people to come here and post.

I don't see enough "genetic diversity" here to populate an entire ecosystem like the major centralized platforms. They all had marketing and features that attracted people to come post. I came to Nostr specifically through Bitcoin. Cool, but we need something else for all the other people. Something is missing. It could be that the tech is too new or unreliable. Maybe people just aren't ready for Nostr. Maybe we lack marketing. Either way, pretending that everything is fine right now (just post stuff, bro) doesn't seem productive to me.

It seems stagnant to me and I don't think posting about cigars or my other interests is going to magically fix that problem. Neither will looking at few pictures of flowers or some rando's plate of food (probably posted by Bitcoiners if I dug deeper). We don't seem to have a funnel for people to get here and stay. Bitcoiners seem to be the major on ramp, and that obviously limits Nostr to Bitcoin growth and adoption.

I feel the same. I think we've all finally realized Nostr sucks and no one is coming, really.

We built all this giant piece of something that turns out no one really understands or cares, not even most Nostr developers.

There is no red.

There is no blue.

There is the state.

And there is you.

Is laughing at the absurdity of both sides and knowing absolutely nothing government does is good or in my best interest close enough?

How's your thumbnail game?

How's your thumbnail game?

Get out there and make it happen.

Partly because of your harsh critique of government, I like your channel.

😆

Haha dont feel guilty! Primal’s alright 😉

I feel guilty, I'm using Primal desktop right now.

Switching to Damus to reply to you 😂