Secure DMs and groups might be how Nostr wins. Like Signal, but better: no phone number or centralized service provider needed. Actually there are no publicly visible user IDs involved, so in that regard it's similar to simplex.chat.

Unlike public messaging, DMs do not depend on the network effect. Great for onboarding people and keeping them returning with push notifications. They get a bitcoin wallet, zaps and all the other Nostr greatness on the side.

Many people don't want to let go of their existing follower base on X, but "Nostr DMs only" is easier to do. I could imagine that becoming a thing in the Bitcoin scene at first.

If it isn’t, it will be 😎🤣

GM. It’s a great day to own bitcoin. It’s an even better day to tell the ones in your life that you love them. If there’s one guarantee in life it’s that the best laid plans can all change tomorrow.

#gm

#life

#thursday

People criticizing nostr apps for their quality are making multiple category errors:

- Individuals (or very small teams) can't produce the same level of quality as large teams, but teams can't exercise as much creativity as individuals

- Optimal UX comes from a need for growth, stemming from a need for profit. Grantees and hobbyists do not have this motive. But for-profit businesses won't be principled about putting the protocol first, while grantees and hobbyists may be.

- Good UX partly comes from experience, and existing best practices. Very little of this is established yet for nostr, both from a design and engineering perspective. We're making it up as we go along.

If you want something new, you have to take the bad with the good. When I started this, my expectation was that it would be a ten year project with a 0% chance of success. Two years in, I'd say we're doing extremely well.

I don't care about growth, and won't for a while. I'm not in it for user numbers or zaps, I want to use software to give my kids a better life. Drop the high time preference, and dig in, because this is going to be a long ride.

With all that said, I do feel a new wave coming in the next year or so, as best practices crystallize, and as existing projects reach a point of maturity where their developers recognize their own limits and need for help. I look forward to seeing teams coalesce to push forward what the creatives started.

This might take the form of more for-profit businesses, but I hope that devs (including myself) will be able to swallow their ego and pitch in on projects that don't belong to them without having to get "hired". The difficulty of this on nostr is of course that the scope of the protocol leaves so many tantalizing possibilities to work on.

For myself, I remain focused on my original mission of serving real-life communities. However, the longer I work on the problem, the larger it becomes. It turns out that there has in fact been decades of work in the space, and there continue to exist many unsolved problems, even without introducing decentralization. It would be hubristic to think that my first attempt at the problem would be either correct or successful. Iteration, exploration, and education are all necessary.

It's very likely that it's impossible for a single developer to cover even a single use case of nostr satisfactorily. We'll all eventually need help. This is just the nature of the project we've set for ourselves.

#Bitcoin isn't a pyramid scheme, it's an hourglass scheme. What level are you at?

#asknostr

**Have you had experience when you consume carbs eg pasta, you feel bloated?**

Or is it just me? 🤔💭

#plebchain #nostr #grownostr #foodstr #food #nostriches

What are the things, you would have liked to know earlier in life? #asknostr

I begin: eating bad food is accelerating aging and will cause you pain when you are old.

From yesterday post some anons zapped me more sats to pass it on 🫡

I have about 5000 sats⚡️

Sending 100 sats to first 50 people to reply to this post.

GM,Nostr! 🩷

Something that is super tasty and popular in Brazil by the end of the year,it’s an old Italian recipe called Panettone. My favorite version is the traditional one with dried fruits. However,many Brazilians love the Chocotonne version,with small pieces of chocolate inside.

If you have ever tasted this delicious bread,which one is your favorite? Chocolate or Dried Fruit?

#asknostr

#gm

#nostr

Your chance to vote for the future of #NostrMemes sponsored contest is here

2 options to vote on 🗳️

Community Votes (what we currently have)

or

Panel Votes (5 voters preferably for this, but as of right now it’s only 1 person)

Make a choice, and we will move forward with it for the upcoming contests!

Until election season is over, Twitter has reached rock-bottom to me.

I won’t say it’s unusable, since I am using it, but I have to navigate around its main thing to continue with the positive elements of the network effect that exists there.

And so many accounts are super biased on any given topic to a clearly irrational degree. I keep seeing things that seem like satire, but instead they are genuinely written to appeal to lower information people in a way that, from my perspective, is highly patronizing to them.

I find it so distasteful. The prior election year 2020 had a lot of polarizing elements obviously, but 2024 has more clearly conscious polarizing elements going on. Large influencer accounts whose motives are clear toward a broader audience with talking points geared toward child-level rhetoric and civic understanding. You can watch them as an observer speaking to their flock as though they were children.