Lol’ing at the hacker news discussion about Nostr 😂

Love this protocol 🧡

Have you understood what it means to zap?

Love zaping down rabbit holes

Taking break from nostr for a few days. I need to get off tilt and focus on my work.

I’ve been reflecting on the state of things here as i start to use bluesky more often (i still like nostr much better fwiw).

I know this may offend some of you but I’m getting frustrated with how caught up we all are in our zapping wonderland with no concern for the outside world.

If we want this place to grow and succeed we really need to take a look in the mirror and ask ourselves what it would be like to join nostr right now if you knew nothing about bitcoin. You would probably hate it, and stop using it within a day. Our worlds may revolve around bitcoin, but to a majority of people, they could give two shits about bitcoin.

Nostr is now considered by many outsiders as a “bitcoin project”. And I, for one, think that’s a terrible thing for nostr adoption and growth. There are brilliant people in this world who care about freedom tech but just don’t understand bitcoin yet and want nothing to do with it. And by making nostr all about bitcoin, we’ve scared those brilliant people off, who could have helped this place develop even further than it already has.

The way things stand right now, I see nostr adoption as being fully tied to bitcoin adoption. People won’t want to come here until they understand bitcoin. Instead of selling people just nostr, we now have to sell them nostr + bitcoin. And it shouldn’t be that way.

I’m still bullish on nostr, but we really need to do some self reflection at this point and ask ourselves what the correct path forward is.

See ya in a few internet frens 👋

Good morning #Nostr.

I am seeing a lot of nostriches being much more active on Twitter than on #Nostr.

#MarchOffTwitter was fun, but now looks like ages ago.

The future of every protocol depends on the actions of its users. If we want it to scale, be used more and more, if we want other social media to be open source, if we want it to become something more than just a fancy social app, everyone needs to something.

Posting on Twitter and then reposting that here is probably the opposite we should do to on-board people on #Nostr.

Arguments and discussion with notes between Devs about Nips, and forcing forks can create fragmentation.. why not a weekly NostrNest were devs have brainstorm idea and live discussion with eachother trying to find a common way before making Nips or updates that will have big impact on every user experience. In the end everyone can do whatever, but at least trying to do something together it's worth trying.

#Nostr like #Bitcoin is a protocol, it's an idea, it can't be killed, but it can't be ignored, forget, abandoned.

Pura Vida. 🍀💜🫂☯️

Give it time! Lots of great resources out here to help! #grownostr #nostrplebs

You are gonna adapt