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Asked this week a dev that was developing one of the first alt Twitter apps at the time and is very tech savvy. His response was that the btc maxi talk was the turn-off at this point.

All the keys, relays and the overall learning curve with specific lingo: pv, zaps etc. take effort to get used to and not many have the time and interest for it.

"Alternative for X" is not good enough. Mastodon got a lot of new users last year but not many have stayed active. What can we learn from that experience?

What worries me the most at the moment is that the next wave of people prefer more convenience and are not too willing to learn new things or pay for them.

Video hosting becomes expensive. The data needs to go somewhere. The big players will step in and introduce the same old models again: we host your media and it’s all free for you. And the rest will follow from there. Data ownership and security do not worry many people.

Email is not decentralised anymore. It just does not get deliver unless you’re part of the big players. The protocol does not matter if the monetisation model overdrives it.

Nostr needs to become so easy and convenient for the masses with the model that is decentralised and in line with the OG vision of censorship resistance etc. that is preferred over the old models that will be introduced soon (if enough people join and nostr becomes a viable alternative).

"The cheapest, Small Package, gives access to 50 million tweets for $42,000 a month. Higher tiers give researchers or businesses access to larger volumes of tweets—100 million and 200 million tweets respectively—and cost $125,000 and $210,000 a month. "

https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-data-api-prices-out-nearly-everyone/

These scenes come as highly recommended:

The Not-dead Man-7:00

The Black Knight-12:05

The Witch Trial-16:56

Camelot-22:25

The Frenchmen-25:58

The Scholar(Frank)-31:59

The Tale of Sir Robin-32:43

The Tale of Sir Galahad-36:00

The Knights who Say NI-44:34

The Tale of Sir Lancelot-47:23

Tim-1:05:55

The killer Rabbit-1:09:46

The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch-1:12:33

The Questions-1:18:06

I'm afraid they are out of stock at the moment but there's some Monty Python and Holy Grail that goes nicely with the previous order's esthetics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmtSj4wH5Rg