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Small story: a journalist, friend, asked me if I could explain what the heck is this NOSTR that the Twitter CEO was talking (sic)..happily, I started to show him how it works, what can you (and can't) do with this and his face was 🀯 - OK, and how do I create my account? (proceeds to explain and show how to keep their PK safe) - wait a minute, what happen if I lose my pk or something similar? How do I recover them? (proceeds to explain how to keep his PK safe part 2 and also some additional info of how I manage my keys) - Nah, it's too hard and I have a reputation to protect. Instead of arguing, I just say "ok" but my doubt remains: NOSTR is censorship resistant, protect his reputation means that if he/she make a mistake and their PK got lost, how do they get back? Will they have to all start over again? That happened weeks ago but, I keep thinking and while I agree with this note, also want to give voice to this specific concern. View quoted note β†’
↩ replying to Nelson Cardozo
What you describe is a problem indeed. Nostr is not and will never be a solution to this problem. Nostr is one of the tools to solve completely different problem Once one realizes he wants to be responsible for his identity, nostr (or alike) is a no-brainer Until one doesn’t want to bother with responsibility and would better delegate it, nostr (or alike) will never beat a centralized solution
@jack I can see some sort of uptake in the same way youtubers promote their Rumble, Rokfin and Bitchute channels in the 'just in case I get banned' way they do. I suppose it's how you get the word out that nostr could be seen and used in a similar way too. Currently watching this which raises a lot of nostr usecase points, mentions Matt Taibbi, censorship, Australian regulation of social media etc etc. Think it could be of interest to a few people here too.
Out of interest what's the current number of users? Also is there an embraced metric among the community? I see from primal ~570k users. Is that all time I wonder? In blockchain world unique active wallets is commonly used. When I look at UAW in the last 7 days the largest activity on any chain is ~1.1M (near protocol) but that's an outlier in the top 10 it averages out at about 300k UAWs (source: dappradar)
↩ replying to npub17plq...ezx0
Haha I follow jack on Twitter/X and he posted about nostr and I had no idea what it was so I didn't pay attention much, thought it was for tech people πŸ€·πŸ½β€β™€οΈ. But then he posted this video, and I like a good mini documentary and it got me excited with the way they were explaining it and how creative and collaborative it sounded. I wanted to watch it being built, was very curious. Made me think of a foundation of a house and a bunch of artists building on top of it. Didn't sign up for like 3 weeks after watching, but only cos the sign up process looked long and I didn't want to make a mistake. Had it on my to do list though and found a spare 10 mins one morning and thought, yepp, today's the day. Followed @Max DeMarco's linked instructions at the bottom of the video and ended up spending the whole day exploring nostr. Didn't think I'd still be here, but you guys have me hooked. And not like tick tock which sucks and makes you lose time and numbs your brain, but I feel like I actually connect with people and learn so much on here πŸ™
↩ replying to npub1jcjx...mtwx
After watching this docu I thought of my 3 features I would love to see on #nostr. 1) Relay wizard which constantly find the best relay composition for me and let me pay once per month where the money will be allocated to the relays afterwards. 2) Algorithm-Builder where ich can easily build (no-code) my algorithm how I want to navigate in the #nostrverse. I do not want to be manipulated by non transparent algorithms 3) you-tube like thing build on #nostr. Censorship resistant and fair monetization for content creators.
πŸ™„ PEOPLE WONT SEE THE VALUE OR UNDERSTAND NOSTR AND BITCOIN UNTIL THEY TOUCH THE PERSONS LIFE IN A POSITIVE WAY. For Christ sakes FB is paying folks to upload videos, while I have to pay for a service to be able to do that here on nostr. Have to pay to go live, the fucking list never ends... Once freedom and privacy become easy and convenient, that's when nostr wins. Until then, yall have fun building shit the general public will never pay for or use and keep wondering "why don't we have more people" πŸ™„
Well while most of the times with almost any startup thats true, in this case it seems to me its not and maybe not microblogging but nostr needs more features. Or some kind of a killer feature Its interesting to build for nostr but tbh I still can’t find anything interesring to consume hete
I am already bugging all my whatsapp friends :-) though i think nostr would ramp up slow cuz the people are really really saturated with social media .. general vibe is how to leave the ones they already have not to add more That said , i believe nostr would gradually scale because the sheer number of clients and the communities that each client brings .. for example , i got hooked to yakihonne.com for long posts and ended up joining their community .. thats giving me traction .. i am sure there are lot of people like me who are on nostr because they contribute , or create for a particular client ..
It's difficult to bring new users in and have them stay. People don't want to manage multiple social graphs. What I do is to highlight the experience of leaving Facebook and X, focus on that, focus how the algorithm is playing with everyone's mind, keeping everyone addicted and not thinking straight, and how liberating it is to be free from that. I find that to be a better approach. Just like when talking about Bitcoin, it's better to just show how the Fiat monetary system is ruining everything. View quoted note β†’
I’m not sure. Maybe better feed algorithms are also very important and necessary for mass adoption. I still feel like my feed ain’t as curated as it could be. And I think average x.com users would have higher expectations about how meaningful their feed should be (more hot and popular notes first, more personalized)
I believe nostr is doing more than fine.. these things take time and new users will only come when more infrastructure is added to suit their needs or when most of their network is already in. most people don't understand the need for nostr, they see it as just another platform and they see no benefit in it whatsoever, only those more involved care and understand the need and benefits it brings. we haven't even met all the early adopters needs, to cater for the rest is still a bit far down the line..