Oh you have a costume kid! They are the best! My boys were always in one outfit or another growing up!

Definitely worth a read.

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The email from Rick the chief comms officer is insane. This interview is chill.

The color this weekend was amazing!

I use Zoom. Mostly because everyone has it and I don’t have to troubleshoot the tech.

I would not use OBS. It’s good for streamers but not for interviews.

JitsiMeet supposedly has recording. It’s open source. It’s sort of clunky to get a irl to schedule the meeting, but if you sort that out on the user end it’s great.

We have folks screen share in zoom and give them a clickable prototype or sometimes have them screen share their phone

Fair point. I use Nos as my primary app and it doesn’t support zaps is the main reason.

There are other reasons that have to do with wallet access . The assumption by this community that everyone has access to wallets legally is not an accurate one. Countries and states have different regulations when it comes to crypto and it is not a level playing field.

Nos has been trying to recruit Creators and Journalists into the Nostr ecosystem since May. The results have not been great for the creators or journalists who have joined. For context we onboarded most to both Nos and Primal so they could experiment with zaps in the latter.

I analyzed the zaps received from all the creators and journalists in the program. The only 2 that received anything approaching V4V for their work were already on Nostr AND talk about Bitcoin as part of their art / creations.

This aligns with feedback I’ve heard from other Nostr users who’ve mentioned changing what they talk about to fit in. They didn’t come here to talk about Bitcoin or Nostr development. However, in order to feel like they belong they felt the need to change what they posted here.

My sense at this point is that Nostr is winning for its intended audience. It’s just that the audience isn’t that big. There’s been a huge effort to get Bitcoin enthusiasts to come to Nostr but the majority of those folks think of Bitcoin as an investment vehicle rather than revolutionary money. They want information that helps them invest not opt out of the fiat system. This latter point came from recent rounds of user research.

To people outside of Nostr when they hear “censorship resistance” they think 4 Chan. Last I checked 4 Chan was the purview of teenage boys trying to be edgy and trolls. Very few creators want to associate their personal brands with that.

I just looked at trending on Primal and the majority of notes are either Bitcoin or Nostr dev related OR by people in the top 10 popularity list on Nostr: Derek, Jack, Odell.

If you want Nostr to grow, run an experiment for a week. Only like, repost, zap non Bitcoin or Nostr dev posts. See if your experience changes.

Let’s see what Primal trending looks like at this time next week. (This of course assumes trending is based on engagement rather than the top 30 Nostr users.)

To be clear there’s nothing wrong with focusing on Nostr development and Bitcoin if you are satisfied with the size of the Nostr ecosystem. And many people here are quite content. I would encourage those of you who are not to be the change you want to see. You don’t need more features, behavior change will likely kick start what you want to see.

A friend of ours stopped by today to harvest some spahgnum moss for a big he’s creating. The moss he finds here is the only variety he can get to stay alive and reproduce. He also came across club moss (pictured) which used to grow as tall as trees thousands of years ago!

If only all job descriptions were as straightforward and to the point!

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“It appears she can’t even say “vote.” When she used the word in a caption across 11 posts, her average audience was 63 percent smaller.”

https://wapo.st/48aXfnp

This is awesome

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In Nashville this Friday? Go see nostr:npub13qrrw2h4z52m7jh0spefrwtysl4psfkfv6j4j672se5hkhvtyw7qu0almy and others at the Cowen or listen live!

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I can’t wait to see what they hack with these!

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🤣

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The title is questionable, but the article talks about an independent candidate carving a campaign and platform based on the needs of the residents of Nebraska. Gift link. https://wapo.st/4h432z3

Do you follow them via Bridgey Fed on Mastodon here? I haven’t looked it up yet, but that might be an option to encourage them to come over. They should see the referrals from Nostr clients.

"And yet, if you point out how stupid, wasteful, and corrosive these specific uses of AI are, you are painted as a loser killjoy by the investors and people who have the most to gain from its mass adoption, and the companies who make and promote the tools that enable it either ignore that it’s happening, publish some bullshit blog post that means nothing about how they are trying oh so hard to combat abuse of their systems, ask you what the big deal is, and continue to ensure that the swift destruction of the human-led, useful and usable internet continues unabated.”

https://www.404media.co/hurricane-helene-and-the-fuck-it-era-of-ai-generated-slop/

You may want to spread your posts out over the course of the day instead of grouping them all one right after another. Some spam filters may be perceiving your account as spam.

Some #fall color is emerging!