i wish there were a way in Nostr DMs to say “are you on Signal? can we discuss there? here’s my phone number: X” and it could just push the convo over there if the counter-party accepts
until we have a good nostr-native DM-like tool
I’m kinda like a podcast “Highlighter”? 😝
on not building open source (from Nostrovia pod):
#[0] “enjoy your Internet of 1 person”
#[1] “enjoy your network effects of you”
😝😝😝
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nostrovia/episodes/The-Pablo-Episode-e238r91
there is definitely a lot required to get from here to “the promised land” of self-sovereign freedom in communications, but the hardest thing, imo, is to get some social consensus/activation energy that people want to keep showing up, keep creating, keep building on nostr and I think we’ve got that at the moment
+ no one has seriously explored new UXes on adding/selecting relays - it’s a big area of opportunity to explore/improve UX, but we’ve only seen minimal experimentation there so far, as it becomes more important people will self-organize to attempt solutions
+ I think most people would pay if they felt they were getting enough new value, but this is just beginning. Apps are primarily Twitter clones so far. We haven’t really seen massive new types of innovative application value getting created yet. Open source software and aligned incentives of contributing to something that no one controls is pretty substantial and has never been tried. I bet developers come up with really interesting services that people are excited to pay for. Relay operators will probably find a way to get paid for the cost/value they subsidize today
+ if EU is hostile toward relay operators maybe they will primarily operate outside the EU? EU citizens can choose to connect to whatever relays they prefer even if they’re not inside national borders - this highlights a pretty important ingredient we’ve never seen before - everything in the ecosystem is in competition with everything else to serve users’ preferences
+ nostr is not tied to bitcoin, though I think it’s the most logical choice for payments - your question is one that bitcoiners have been contemplating for a long time and there’s no real answer, but we’ll get more empirical data as more people opt-in to trying it
every decentralized social founder vibe rn
there’s always risk, but so far there’s no obvious impossibility and it’s generally true that “life finds a way”
are you more concerned about UX for mainstream users, technical scalability or something else?
you should first download an extension like Alby (getalby.com) or nos2x. this helps you manage your private key (like your password) securely
it’s really well built! 💪
i think without it being “public domain” most of us wouldn’t be very interested
What if you used Nostr to prompt, crowdfund (via zaps), and produce AI-image-generated art… and the crowdfunders of the prompt earned the zaps that the output image generated?
Nostr + AI + Zaps 💜🖼️⚡️
Preview of the full episode with #[0] in this short clip
👋 maybe we should do it together?
#[2] can i host you on the pod to discuss Zapvertising and whatever else is on your mind?
what kind of bitcoiner wants to save the state?
…
[showing myself out now 🫡]
i take the man at his word 😉
🎯
this is why i haven’t deleted my twitter account and i’m ramping up my youtube videos about nostr
we need to meet people where they are and share the message of what we’ve discovered
(still can’t wait until i can be pure nostr, fwiw 😋)
this team ships! 👀 nostr:note164hegejuulctrm0wcy2sqpp4aty5duyld9uvsayrzzq6fhaeuumsw0t9w6
“I suck at UX” is another way of humbly saying “I’m a badass at backend” 😝
this is great advice
it takes a certain boldness to just let it rip, but this is the way relationships are built