people on nostr love the idea of feeds.

I've had a LOT of conversations with people about Nostr, really people who are aware of Nostr but don't use it.

There are a few things that come up.

* General admiration for Nostr and how it does tons of interesting things in terms of tech. It's way more flexible than ATprotocol or ActivityPub.

* Frustration with the way user accounts / logins / keys work. It's very confusing if you're not somebody who already understands crypto. Mostly it's confusing because of how we talk about it. If we tell people, here's your magic user text, paste this in places and you'll be magically logged in, they love it. If we try and explain custody and wallets and keys and browser extensions and all the ways you can login with Nostr, their eyes glaze over.

* Not feeling like it's a place for them. Everybody is talking about Bitcoin and Nostr. Most folks don't care very much about the underlying tools or how payments work. They want to talk about their interests, surfing, food, travel, their friends. or ten million other things. They see Nostr as a bitcoin place. Most people have either no opinion or a negative opinion of bitcoin because somebody tried to evangelize it too hard.

* Zaps, folks love zaps. I've heard from board members and the executives of Bluesky that they want zaps. Folks don't like bitcoin and bitcoin content but they do want the functionality. The problem is when creators come to Nostr, they only get zaps for content that is about nostr or bitcoin. There's no good way to build and sustain themselves with other content.

* Algorithms - we all have a love hate relationship with algorithms. We say we don't want them, but we choose to use systems with algorithms. We have them in nostr with DVM's and it works. But it's not well integrated in to the apps and most feed services via DVM's are way too slow. The algorithm helps people be seen, grow an audience, find their people, keep being engaged. We built the proof of concept but didn't make it in to a good product.

These things that keep people from Nostr are fixable. What i'm going at with my podcast is to build a larger movement, Nostr is a solution, but people on Nostr aren't my intended audience. ;-D

cool! my podstr code is live on github and the informational site is live, but not complete at podstr.org

my goal is to dogfood this for Soapbox Sessions for a while before officially launching it.

we should collba on the event kind numbers and work on the NIP together so that we're interoperable and compatible perhaps?

have had 12 raw eggs in the last 24 hours.

ama

Who built this? Never saw it before.

Every time I see HODL... I hear it 3 times quickly in a turkey voice.

Does anyone else manually offload

- photos

- videos

- etc...

From your phone ? I've always done this I don't use cloud storage...

Thoughts 💭🧐

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#asknostr #photos #videos #mobil #phone

I keep wanting to create an AI standards initiative. And I keep wanting to call it "OpenAI".

Good morning 🌞🫂

Is there any active community on Nostr besides bitcoiners?