GM ☀️

GM, and that goes without saying.

Yes

My assumption is that most people today are addicted to dopamine— to the point where they feel the need to scroll “For You” feeds every hour. Nostr doesn’t reinforce that kind of behavior, which is probably why most people aren’t moving here. But at the same time, I don’t want us to build that kind of feed either. I’m not sure which problem we should be solving— because helping people break that addiction feels like a very heavy task.

It’s not just users—content creators are addicted too, especially to engagement. Right now, Nostr doesn’t provide the level of engagement they expect.

Traditional platforms as Facebook and Twitter are helping since the experiences are declining. The absense of algorithms is really a plus and atm I almost prefer nostr. My dopamin addiction stil prefer traditional platforms though

It is the other stuff where it's at. Nobody wants another twitter. Just look at truthsocial, threads or bluesky and i am sure they have thrown way more money and marketing at it than nostr can ever hope to receive.

If people don't want them then why do billions of people use them? 🤔

What is winning in this context? Is decentralization and the inability to take down this network all the incentive you need to keep using it? Why is everyone's goal seemingly to get everyone on the planet using their thing? If you find it useful, use it. If you think other people would find it useful, tell them about it. The alternative is to be in prison with everyone else. Don't lament being free just because all the people you think are dummies are stuck in prison.

People need to use nostr for the same reason our mothers made us eat our veggies, can't just intake rage bait algos all day and expect a healthy society

agreed. all that . nobody cares we need a fun angle.

Working on it... subscribing to topics, not hashtags or keywords. gm

Fun and rewarding is up against easy and addictive. Perhaps winning is creating more applications that scale the protocol with steady adoption and growth. Perhaps the nostr protocol winning looks more like Linux than TikTok.

I posted a video explaining 9 reasons why 'we shouldn’t keep money in banks.' Most comments thanked me, but there were also many comments from people who are very confident that banks won’t fail and completely trust them. I feel really discouraged.

It was a generation ago that society shifted from the centralized medium of TV to the decentralized medium of the (90s) internet. Since then, the Internet became much more centralized. It might be a generational struggle to reverse it.

It's like whatsapp vs all other similar apps. It is a few people that use something else out of principle. I have no numbers but i would assume that all the above social twitter clones counted together are not a fraction of the amount of users of actual twitter and this is how people will use it. Most people they follow are on twitter, most people following them are on twitter. So unless you have a specific niche reason to use another you go to twitter. Given the fact that all other platforms are 99% the same except for being: trump supporters (truthsocial) or elon haters (anything but twitter) or paid by The Zuck (threads) there is no reason for them to come to nostr for the twitter clone ever. Except for the exact reasons you mentioned above already. That is why i think the other stuff is something where innovation can be found with a novelty that will make nostr attractive.

Your favorite nostr clients and relays, like primal web you sent this with, will not be around if more users don't come fyi

Being based is not enough. The app still has to slap. View quoted note →

…And this is certainly possible because of identity portability. There’s an extremely fun world out there we’re building into that goes beyond the bounds of traditional social media. The creativity is just beginning View quoted note →

The only value of social media is as a distributiom platform, which Nostr does not have the network to support. Forums and communities are the only way to go if focusing soley on social-first applications.

Decentralization is the feature, fun is the UI. Build both

GM!

if no one cares then it's not going to happen anyway

yup