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Pretty bokeh

I knew it had to be a long lens but I didn’t realise how long. Early morning + heavy gears + bugs. Kudos for getting the shot.

Might be better slightly zoomed out but the lighting and the composition and the subject’s pose are spot on to my eyes. Gorgeous bokeh btw.

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.

iPhone: FreeFrom, Plebstr, Damus

macOS: nostrmo (have not tried it on iPhone yet)

Oh. Some nostr app doesn’t have the “website” field. Nor the NIP-05 field. I see.

Replying to Avatar Guy Swann

Is it just me, or does it seem like everyone is super reluctant to monetize services and relays on #Nostr?

If we can’t make these things sustainable then we will either lose them, or they will stay nothing more than a weird little corner of the internet with lots of hope but no chance of ever scaling.

I still haven’t seen the basic model of zap sharing tried by any major client or relay. But I DO see regularly comments about how expensive relays are. I mean it might not work, but can’t we TRY it?

I want to make the distinction here too that this doesn’t mean we are closing off the network, we are adding permissions to the protocol, this doesn’t suggest at all to used closed source code, we simply need the services necessary to keep this ecosystem robust, to be profitable and have the resources to thrive. If they aren’t, then NONE of this works. Economics is everything.

I know building features is more exciting. I know we all want to make everything that we can free, and I agree all of the *code* should be shared. However, I think there is a natural insecurity (and I say this because I have this problem personally) with charging a fair price, and fearing criticism or the ire of people who believe everything should be free (as in price) when we need things to be free (as in Liberty). They are not the same, and confusing the two could stifle, or drastically slow down, the insane potential of this place.

TL;DR We have GOT to divert some energy to thinking about how to make this ecosystem sustainable, or we will lose it.

(Disclaimer: this isn’t a judgement on whoever is thinking about this problem. It just *seems* like few are. If you are building in this way please share your ideas or what you are trying. I’m extremely interested)

I agree that we need a clear path to financial sustainability.

But zaps can also be a deterrent for some users. In some parts of the world, buying Sats without KYC is very difficult. So far nostr is fun and I like many users in nostr, but I have not yet seen any feature that makes it worth giving up personal info just so I can zap.

The ecosystem needs paying / zapping users. And to get more users the apps need to offer values that the users want to pay for. I much prefer that users have the options to help either using zaps or/and fiat money.

I happen to be technically curious, so I am learning to host my own strfry relay. It's been running for almost three weeks, but I still don't know how this is helping nostr or me, if at all.

And I would like to see more newbie-friendly docs. I think it is useful to grow the user base.