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Maybe we can point them to a nostr-based Slack/Discord alternative that they can use for team-based assignments. When I was in college I project managed a student group that focuses on OS rocket and satellite designs. We didn't initially get funding from the school. We started out using Slack but for a while switched to Zulip as a free alternative that doesn't delete old messages.

nostr isn't peer-to-peer, it's unc-to-unc

Agree, what bridge are me missing on #nostr that could be luring college students to cross over? ✨🧱🤔 #asknostr

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Boomer tells Zoomer what tech to use Sick one bro

I guess mature millennials are the new boomers 🤷🏻

Why would anyone go to college? Academia is dying a slow & undignified death

I thought college campuses were full of conformist anti freedom tech folks?

This is the way.

I’m at university and basically only use nostr finding it hard to onboard non bitcoiners though

yes

bitchat could be big on campuses, and be a gateway drug for nostr

Ya

Great idea!!!

The zoomer generation is trapped in the Apple and iOS universe. It's the biggest proprietary digital prison you can imagine. With the zoomer, we have a generation where technical skills are declining. They can't program in C or Assembler. You can shut down the Bitcoin app with a click of the mouse, and the zoomer are powerless.

You mean Gen X, following the Baby Boomers and preceding Millennials, the best generation that brought internet to everybody.

I am giving away 20 Euro every month to people who never used bitcoin, each 5 Euro. If half humanity is into bitcoin I continue with 20 Euro per month for opening their first nostr account, again 5 Euro each, this time zaps. For me this is better than donating to Amnesty or Greenpeace or something like that. But there is one thing i can not figure out: what is the incentive structure for using nostr for normal people. Maybe in a few yesrs nostr will develope and i can create messenger texting with individuals and maybe also in groups

This would be really cool! How would one get a paid to go around and talk about nostr and bitcoin? Is anyone doing that? Does anyone else think about that?

those are millenials, they are old but cant figure it out

They barely know Bitcoin...

Looking at the issue of the adoption of blockchain based technologies from a generational perspective is flawed. Few millennials have a longer term financial perspective, even fewer have ideas about the potential impact of these technologies on their future daily lives. But this is not a feature specific to this cohort alone. Most people, whatever their age, are only interested in stability, quick gains and comfort. Neither NOSTR or bitcoin offer an adequate response to these expectations.

I presented on it once at a Young Americans for Liberty meeting at UC Riverside once. Unfortunately there wasn’t much interest. I probably didn’t do the best job pitching it, but it was still interesting that what I thought would be the target audience didn’t want it

IMO colleges and campuses are the places where students live that are overseen by a centralized system. So they like centralization. I think there is a high risk of them not being interested in Nostr because they like if someone oversees and controls them. It's according to Sri Lanka. But the effort is always good. :-)