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My experience as a decentralizion enthusiast who is fairly tech savvy and was excited about the possibilities of nostr: it has boomer energy, difficult discoverability (of people, topics, and all the awesome "apps"), it puts too much on the user. No ability to protect yourself from bad actors. Boomer energy: stuck on ideology in a faith without works kind of way. This comes from the Bitcoin mentality ie "this is the future, it's the way and the light" ...but it hasn't solved peer to peer completely after 15 years. Discover: search and community is lacking, reliant on hashtags you have to stumble on. User ask: average user is retarded, I'm retarded most days, just let me click around I don't want to write a program myself to do basic tasks. Good things: vibe is friendly, builders ship a lot and fast, zaps are cool, ui is better than blue sky, minds, mastodon, urbit etc

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I'll add these examples from farcaster, which I think is getting a lot of these things right. Channels and the client list on their website are two huge advantages. Channels shown here, easy to search and one click join and pin the top and for each post you can specify a channel. It's slick. image
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Are you talking about Nostr or some client? I agree with what you wrote, but this is not inherent to Nostr itself. All that critique mostly addresses client side of things here, except user base I guess. When you write about UI it doesn't make sense, since Nostr has no UI on it;s own
Well said! Plurality will only grow if the Nostr experience (and possibilities) gets good enough so users that dissent with the current dominant tendencies and ideologies find enough value. Nostr is currently great for Bitcoin/Privacy/Self-sovereignty enthusiasts but has yet a long path to evolve to attract other and more voices. We will perceive Nostr success when it’s hard to find any dominant tendency, basically when it becomes an interesting mess.