If you still have access to fresh sweet corn I highly recommend trying this recipe! It’s the one thing I’ve made multiple times this summer! https://www.alisoneroman.com/recipes/grilled-corn-and-scallion-salad?rq=Corn%20salad

Lol. I really need to work on my wildlife videography. This one was walking down the road this evening. https://video.nostr.build/a2174daa752a8cdd7092a80d5c982c81b4f6e6738a938b4a19aea99c0ca12126.mp4

That is cool. But when I first saw it thought it was from a beach clean-up - plastic. LOL

Check nos next week. 😉

Pick one of the 10+ Hacker News feeds and see how it destroys your timeline. 🤣

The challenge with RSS driven feeds is that Nostr lacks algorithms to moderate the influx of content.

I personally get a lot of value out of the Hacker News RSS but if I leave it on, I completely disengage from the rest of Nostr.

Less prolific rss feeds might be ok. But it comes down to the goal of the client / app. Are you creating a content consumption app or a social networking app?

RSS feeds can help the 9% of the traditional social media group that curates content for others so they don’t have to go externally to find content to share. But I’m not sure what they do for everyone else.

Based on user research we did last week on onboarding, there are a lot of active Nostr users without NIP05s. Some still don’t know what those are for. Everyone might want to make this a lower ranked criteria until that’s sorted.

I realize publicly explaining how you are defining POW is likely not the best idea, however I hope there are options for recognizing legit users vs spam bots when it comes to new accounts.

What happens to new users to Nostr who don’t know anyone? Who are legit and not bots?

Spent a fair amount of time this month weeding this invasive. I too love non-native plants but would rather spend my weekends doing something other than weeding invasive plants.

https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/terrestrial/plants/japanese-stiltgrass

Not the best photo but this is one of the neighborhood bears out for an evening stroll

Is this bc when relays find his notes they block him but don’t delete them? And as a result search is becoming useless?

Fascinating podcast episode interview with an author of a new book On Freedom the premise of which is to reframe freedom from a positive perspective.

The discussion addresses a range of topics and is well worth a listen. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/poured-over/id1567969228?i=1000669806368

A view from Monday morning’s forest walk.

Hi nostr:npub1h0fd5xu8rfhwdkkjr78ssdhm7rdjyf97hhjqr9acwv77ux0uvf8q23kvcg - we at Nos would be interested in speaking with you about this to see what tools are needed and how Nostr can support this type of journalism. I’ll send you a DM

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In the past month or so I’ve heard multiple stories from people who have almost been scammed or have been scammed via phone, email, text etc. The grifters are having a moment and it’s one we should be aware of when it comes to branding and marketing of Nostr.

A key element of brand positioning and marketing is to understand the context in which a product is entering the market. For Nostr three contexts we need to keep in mind are:

1. Most people are frustrated with platform social media’s dopamine engagement approach and endless ads, which boils down to a lack of control.

2. We live in the golden age of grift. All of us know at least one person who has fallen for or almost fallen for a digital scam of some sort.

3. The scammers did not stick to phone, text, email and social. They took full advantage during the web3 heyday. It doesn’t matter that reading a text message is nearly as risky today as holding a crypto wallet. The narrative is that the scammers concentrate in crypto. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/americans-lost-56-billion-cryptocurrency-scams-2023-fbi/story?id=113514484

The average person does not care enough to learn the difference between Bitcoin and other crypto. Unlike Farcaster Nostr does not require crypto/Bitcoin to participate. This is a feature.

In addition we need to remember that the crypto scams are just piece of the overall grift / scam culture pervading digital spaces. Phone and email scams are more sophisticated and text scams are emerging as well as social media scams. When I reached out to a contact in the game streamer space earlier this year about the Creator Residency, she expressed skepticism because of the web3/blockchain association, noting “Web3/block chain are considered risks and/or ethically the Boogeyman in a lot of creator circles”.

It’s too much for individuals to navigate all the spaces scams can come through on their own. In the US at least the phone companies are not using the tech they have to prevent the scams from getting through. Gmail is decent but not perfect. Meta just 🤷‍♂️.

I spent the summer onboarding a lot of new people to Nostr. I talked about the user-led approach to social media the protocol provides: build your own feed, own your social graph, choose your own content moderation, post the formats of content you want to post. At the end I asked if they would be interested in experimenting with micropayments via the pennies of Bitcoin. Some were interested. Others initially were not and then came back to me later asking for help to set up a wallet.

Nostr is amazing on its own. It solves many of the problems people have with platform social media.

By taking a Nostr-first approach to marketing, onboarding, and branding we’re much more likely to broaden the set of people interested in the protocol and its corresponding apps and services. In turn growth will accelerate.

And some of those folks will eventually want to learn more about zaps, satoshis and Bitcoin once they understand Nostr isn’t over run with scammers and grifters.

For those trying to onboard others, I’m curious if you are seeing the pushback because of fears around crypto or if you avoid that topic altogether?

I will send you a DM. We have times that should work for you.

Great! I will send you a DM!

We are not quite ready for wallet support yet however when I’ve onboarded people in the past I recommend the Primal wallet. I’ve had more than one person tell me it was easier than downloading Nos via TwstFlight.

Sending you a dm.

If you’re up for it we’d love to interview you and have you go through a quick card sorting exercise.