2.42% market share according to rando stats is not impressive. If this is the path of nostr then I’ll be sad

Yesterday I accidentally clicked a Twitter bookmark. First thing it showed me was 2 cops beating on a dude who is just standing there.

Closed.

It’s as if the algo wants people to be angry 🤨

this is the point of course

Wait... A bank is dying and people sold Bitcoin because of that? 🤣 Thanks for the cheap bitcoin, you bozos.

Hello! Thanks for the great question. I won't pretend that I have all the answers but I'll do my best.

I see cyberspace as a tool just like your texting app or lightning wallet; it is a communication medium with certain properties. People can leverage this tool however they like, whether it is for interaction, finding an audience, commerce, donations, finding ideas, sharing ideas, building more tools, etc. I do not know how people will use it, just like we don't know (or can't fully predict) how people will use nostr or lightning or even bitcoin.

Take bitcoin for example. Nobody knew that lightning would eventually be built on top of it and allow for so many more things to be done. Lightning isn't even just micropayments. It allows for new kinds of apps, identity management, communication, etc. Cyberspace could be to nostr what lightning is to bitcoin: a new development on top of a solid decentralized protocol that enables new uses.

I don't think it's healthy or desirable to create something that makes people want to wear a VR headset for the rest of their lives. That's not the goal. Realistically, I see people using ONOSENDAI like they use a web browser. For a few minutes or a few hours. Find something quick or browse for a while. Whatever makes sense for their use case. What really matters is that they are getting something of value out of it.

Cyberspace is a new way of allocating digital 3D space to decentralized entities. I don't know how people will or won't use it, but that doesn't really matter to me. If we create useful tools, people will find ways to use them, and cyberspace will become whatever it needs to become.

I think the important innovation here is that we now have a decentralized way of allocating a finite amount of digital space in a permissionless way. The space is 2^85 cubed, which is massive, but it is finite.

Looking at things from a new point of view can change how we think and give us new ideas. It helps us innovate. Cyberspace is a new point of view for nostr, and nostr is the new decentralized communication protocol of the web. Even if people never ultimately find a use for cyberspace beyond novelty, I will be happy that at least we gave it a go and helped people see things in a new way. But I have this feeling deep down that nostr protocol's strengths are so massive and important that humans do not yet understand or appreciate them fully, and the same can be said for bitcoin. If you build something like cyberspace on top of something so powerful, who can predict what happens next?

A DID is a unique identifier of an entity. This identifier is generated by cryptographic method, just like a Nostr key, and you hold the private key. So you can say it is self-sovereign because only you ave control over this DID. In reality, this identifier is linked to a series of keys for you to use in different scenarios.

Bluesky as 2000+ users now. Is there any way to know how many Nostr and/or Damus users there are?

What’s the best RSS reader these days?

Come to realize one of the reasons people don't get DIDs, is they think they're just glorified pubkeys, or they're glorified decentralized Apple Wallets. This is just a wrong mental model.

The way to think about what DIDs and Verifiable Credentials from an engineering and application developer perspective, is to view them as a wholesale replacement for DNS and Certificate Authorities. They decentralize away from ICANN.

They are a new universal identity layer for the internet. But because they are open an extensible protocols, we can do everything from validate that website is legitimately owned by a company or individual. Or they can be used to model a driver's license, where a government agency issues the credential. The protocol doesn't care.

I think people who think they're "too complex" and add nothing that pubkeys don't, haven't thought too deeply about the totality of problem of identity on the internet, and are likely taking DNS (a highly centralized form of identity) for granted. When they probably shouldn't.

What is your most interesting yet unknown conspiracy theory?

On the bright side, I recently read a reassuring post about why nuclear armageddon is unlikely.

Yes, the Russians have a lot of nukes. But the maintenance requirements to keep a massive stockpile on constant readiness are huge and Russia doesn't commit the resources necessary.

So, if Russia were to pop off, many if not most of their missiles would fail.

The Russian military knows this. They also know that the American military's missiles are well maintained. Nuclear war would not end well for Russia, and it's arguable that they don't even have the benefit of Mutually Assured Destruction.

Besides being polite I don’t see a reason for likes. What would be the effects of eliminating likes and follower count? You could still follow someone but it doesn’t need to show a count anywhere. No more likes or followers. Just put out whatever content you want and receive zaps from people that find value.

I'd say it will fuel it even more. First, you focus in making great content which will earn you actual money, so you make even more great content, and then when you have a huge following, you earn extra money from putting product placements into your great content.

Bow you just have to find the sweet spot where the product placement earns you more than the lost zaps from people who are pissed by the product placement (which should be trivial, most people don't give a shit).

So now, zaps actually enable wannabe influencers to bootstrap their "venture" since they can now earn a little money right from the start, before they even got really big.

Shouldn’t zaps for quality content kill the influencer model?

Why does follower count even matter anyway? Seems pointless unless you’re trying to flex so you can be an influencer of sorts.