Yesterday i was monitoring the twitter thread of the announcement of Buzz, and i noticed there atleast start-ups that realized they were r3kt because Buzz was something similar to what they were doing/planning to do. I was in a voicechat with the soapbox people at that moment and @MK Fain responded that they were one of them. But she was wrong. This is the nice thing about Nostr, is that because you are no longer offering a platform where its binary in terms of users being either on your thing, or on someone else's thing, and the biggest thing being the winner of it all. No, instead, the users of your thing don't miss out because they are not on the other thing, and you never lost out in terms of competing. At any moment, you can have a better offer, and users can switch with very low to 0 friction. There is no 1 thing that is the winner, other than the standard* itself. Nostr *assuming people play nice and are thoughtfull in terms of those standards. View quoted note →

So he executed on his exit strategy, as a true buzzkill RIP View quoted note →

PSA: The most sure shot way you get a ton of users is to throw a ton of money at it in terms of marketing and incentives for new users. View quoted note →

Nostr is not an 'escape', not a 'refuge', and going to Nostr is not 'fleeing'. This mindset/frame is not just unhelpfull, it is incorrect. Shelter is always shitty, and hopefully temporary. Nostr is the next thing, it is better, it is moving forward. People did not 'flee' television to seek refuge on the internet, they dude not 'escape' letters for e-mail. yeah yeah, i get there is a lot of development work still to be done, lots of areas completely unexplored and underdeveloped, and rough edges remaining in those areas that are better established. But we have to understand the fundamental enterprice here. Yes you give up existing established network effects, but you move towards a domain where the network effect potential is far greater. Yes you will probably struggle a bit feeling comfortable dealing with keys, but the flexibility you get among an application eco-system is liberating. Yes you will have to wrap your head around relays and event-kinds but the experience of freedom of association and unsilo'd data is far smoother. If you understand what is going on, you would not even want to stay in the legacy system, because you see if for the dead-end it is; those draconian governement laws are just nails in the coffin, the corpse itself already rotting. If you understand where Nostr is heading, you'd want to move over; not out of panic being stuck inside the decomposing body, but because you see the new horizon. Fortuna Nostr