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Nostr's usage and growth among active users of the protocol continues to grow, however overall active users are still fairly low. Clearly our core community loves Nostr and understands it's importance. We are all bullish. That said, we need a breakout moment or event if we want to continue to #grownostr outside of the Bitcoin community. We can to recruit streamers to try zap.stream to see it's potential to get paid for their content. We can recruit bloggers to use habla.news and highlighter.com to have their voices heard without censorship. I still feel we need a good Instagram and TikTok alternative to recruit from those audiences.
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↩ replying to Derek Ross
I see your point but I find it a menace to copy legacy media’s (mental) models of monetization by scale. I strongly believe it doesn’t have to be this way. Not yet and if later, hopefully very differently. To #grownostr user base, to make it sustainable, and to make it resilient are all important but very different things. Sometimes they intersect but more often than not they contradict each other. As always: trade offs…
Does anyone have reach to the Mises Institute and or Libertarian Party? It would be important to have them understand how NOSTR is key on supporting Individual sovereignity and free speech. This should cascade well in global leaders that consider this important values.
There's conventions, conferences, and trade shows for every under the sun. Some of them aren't very expensive to set up at. I'm not suggesting that you specifically become a trade show nomad but maybe some group would be willing to dedicate time to do a 'nostr tour' to various things where ideologies overlap. A budget for it might seem like a hurdle but a well planned itinerary & an inspired team could be enough to open up various opportunities. I don't know. I think about stuff like that a lot because a break out moment is probably going to look very different than most previous, being that nostr is so very different. That idea bounces around in my head a lot. This seemed like a good spot to set it free. πŸ˜…
My two cents. To keep active people around, it's important to make sure their following lists don't get wiped out. Mine got nuked, and I stopped using Nostr for a month. I only came back because I love the idea of decentralized social media and enjoy following Nostr devs' progress.