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Andrew
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Software Engineer by day, aspiring beet farmer by night. ☦️💻⚽🏥📷📈💪☕️🇺🇸🇪🇬 Things I like: - #P2P/#decentralized/#opensource stuff - #History (esp Rome/Greece/Egypt) - #Transit oriented city design - #Gadgets/#ElectricVehicles/#Solar Power - #Space exploration - #Videogames (especially #GTA) Things I've Built: - Agora: Follow your favorite topics across Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, and Threads https://agorasocial.app - Chronicl: Decentralized web archiver that distributes archives across Nostr relays https://chronicl.vercel.app/ “Egyptians are twisted and bitter people with a sense of humor” - Roman poet Theocritus

The bridging for Threads accounts isn't fully working yet with the Mostr bridge because of some ssl issues, but this is the user I'm referencing

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Some suggestions on 'zero-cost marketing' for Nostr clients and other stuff. Feel free to add on suggestions :

1. Write more on media - approach various angles of Nostr and target at least 1-2 articles to be published a month.

2. Reach out to users based on where they are - if college kids maybe have talks or workshops on campuses. If it’s neighborhood, put up short and catchy brochures in the neighborhood local businesses, coffee shops, on the street, bars .

3. Ted talks or similar highly established talks with a large audience on the concept of

(a) “reversing the current internet” like how nostr:npub1zuuajd7u3sx8xu92yav9jwxpr839cs0kc3q6t56vd5u9q033xmhsk6c2uc ` talked about or

(b) bridging many diff ideologies through platforms and bringing people together like how nostr:npub1k979np6dcpwh7mkfwk7wq3msezml48fh7wksp9hakakf8pwk3y5qhdz7te is doing it .

These are all very novel concepts.

4. Do short videos like how the Thai tik tok went viral - and post it on various other social media - tik tok, IG, FB.

5. Partner up with businesses for free onboarding promo on their website to their clients.

6. Get into as many TV interviews and radio interviews

The current marketing initiatives are heavy on Bitcoin conferences.

1. It might be stale because of high repetition

2. BUT. Because it's easier to convert bitcoiner, the initiatives here can be one step beyond onboarding - such as establishing bitcoin relays or if specific to localities, then onboard someone local who can set up local relays and that person onboards more people from there, and it relays on =)

Goal = acquire users + grow this user base.

Some thoughts :

Having a great and easy to use product with useful features is one thing. Finding users is another. Both are different types of challenges.

I like nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn 's concept of user growth and I think clients would benefit from a user acquisition strategy, establishing primary, secondary target audience and finding means to engage them.

I hope Nostr doesn't die off. It's a great initiative.

If you have more suggestion on zero-cost marketing, feel free to add on.

Very well said!

Surprised so few of the popular relays have implemented NIP-50 keyword search.

Seems ideal to have NIP-50 search on as many relays as possible, so that the few that do have it (like nostr.band) aren’t having to shoulder the load of user search.

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These posts are exhausting. As someone on both playforms, mastodon’s onboarding is bad and insulting people is lame. If you are not tech-inclined it’s hard, and these posts are why people don’t migrate.

Don’t even get my started about the CW police.

Mastodon is getting the reputation of becoming the HOA of social medias, I wonder why?

This is why I think this still applies:

Ironically, it's going to be 60 degrees this Sunday, so who knows how long the snow will stick around!

Checking in from #Boston with the first snowfall of the season

#snow #christmas

The right y-axis is for the US numbers, and the left one is for the China numbers. Using two different y-axis' was a weird choice, I agree.

i should reword that, we don’t need to actively *hide* it from users, just more so that they shouldn’t have to worry about it.

I think it should be toggled based on if the user turns on “advanced mode”. otherwise for the average user, the ideal nostr experience is one where they don’t need to think about or understand relays