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creating scholarships with learning.

Just released animated video lectures that the 100+ question app is based on along with better nostr badge implementation.

I think it's important that any AI-enhanced platform has a layer or foundation built on human-touch rather than just depending on AI generated content.

Learn coding & citizenship civics with nostr & AI (in English & Spanish(. Opt-in to create scholarships with learning with cashu:

coding: https://embedded-sunset.app

citizenship civics: https://civico.app

Being stubborn has been a great return on investment as an engineer and entrepreneur.

I'll message you when the badge implementation is 100%. Still have a few bugs to work out. I'm a huge fan of this for edtech because I think the decentralization of transcripts when it comes to e-learning is something that's missing at the foundational level.

For example, if a 4th year engineering student drops out, it's as if they've literally done nothing at all and I think the goal of technology is to approximate reality.

Other than that I like badges a lot for engagement like you illustrated - the idea of collecting rare badges like today's $100K day or attending open-source events like nostriga is awesome and has positive consequences for social communication.

it's nice being able to celebrate $100,000 per BTC on nostr instead of having to chase views and attention on platforms with algorithms.

1 BTC = 1 BTC! It's been a great year.

Tiktok is an app that reeks of evil. Hope it gets banned on day 1. It is genuinely poison for our society.

Can never get grants for my work so I created my own

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The introduction of badges changed Reddit for me. The psychological need to continue using Reddit to continue my daily streak is strong.

I noticed this after the first few badges. 5 days 10, 20, 30, etc. I wanted to keep going because I was getting notifications that I was completing something special.

After earning a couple badges, I found myself forcing myself to use Reddit every day just to keep my streak alive. Then, badges started to become more rare in quality as the streak day count increased. I wanted to collect them all! I wanted to see if I could earn the legendary ones. 365 days? 500 days? Hell yeah!

I don't particularly care about Reddit all that much. Most days I'd be fine just reading. I don't need to upvote or downvote. Or at least I thought I didn't? Badges changed that for me.

I see this with my children, especially my daughter. Her and her friends all use Snapchat to communicate. She cares about keeping her streaks alive with friends. It's a silly little indicator in Snapchat, just like Reddit, that keeps pulling people back in.

I know that we all recognize the issues with legacy social media. I know these tactics are meant to keep bringing us back, so that the algorithms can keep us enraged and engaged, to steal our attention. We can do better!

It's no secret that user retention is horrible across the Nostr ecosystem. Could a Nostr client implement something similar to these streak badges without the negative aspects to keep people coming back? Definitely.

Nostr doesn't have evil algorithms. (Someone could build one though. It's an open protocol!) I believe a developer could implement a similar feature to draw people back into their application. We have a badges spec. The badge could be automatically assigned and displayed on the user profile as their engagement increases.

I guess technically this doesn't even need to be implemented by a specific client. Someone could essentially write a DVM for this, right? This would be a large task though. The DVM could use the nostr.band API or search.nostr.wine API or something similar to do this and assign these streak badges automatically across "all of Nostr" or even just a specific set of relays. Relay operators could implement something such as this too. It's all possible.

Thoughts?

https://nostrcheck.me/media/3f770d65d3a764a9c5cb503ae123e62ec7598ad035d836e2a810f3877a745b24/127a45c2a1e4a754ea7d00f860ed8eafd0f45dcac7b7f9794b51d717e58766c4.webp

Currently working on creating more nostr badges tonight =)

So far you wouldnt encounter a badge until you finished the 10th question and it was mostly created to show case that you could share transcripts between the language learning app and the tutoring app, but now im moving it to be a first class citizen in the main experience

Introduced about 750 people to nostr on the side so far in the last 30 days.

Gonna build some AI nostr experiences for fun. Is there anything you'd like to see with your notes?

I like the Coinbase smart wallet but the Coinbase ecosystem itself is super messy and overstimulating.

It doesn’t feel like Coinbase and Ethereum folks have a strong understanding of the incentives that drive user behavior and instead have a pretty strong bias of trying to convince users of superior experiences.

Most people just want stuff to work naturally.

ngl, Coinbase's Smart Wallet is pretty good.