Onboarded my mom to Nostr today.
Or… at least I tried😅
She has zero Bitcoin background, zero clue what decentralization means, and asking her to manage a private key was already a mountain to climb. ("Wait… what do I do if I lose this password?… 🤯)
After 1.5 hours, we ended up writing the nsec on a piece of paper. She is taking a well-deserved break now. Bless her.
The hardest part?
Self-custody and taking full responsibility for your keys is scary when you have lived your whole life with banks, password resets and someone to call when things go wrong.
Explaining value-for-value and zapping when you come from a lifetime of centralized platforms and like-slavery.
Also: she doesn’t speak English so even the app settings were confusing.
But I’m sure we are getting there as she always questioned the system and the government and is looking for ways and tools to get information!
Mom, I love you so much. We’ll get there.
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Awww way to go momma 👏
What app are you using? I know Damus has translated the navigation into several languages. And it does on device translations for all your posts!
Link something to her npub so we can zap her when she gets on her feet!
Queen of NOSTR onboarding 🙌🏽
You are! I heard someone is coming to @Adopting Bitcoin 😍🤭
Give her a few days… please 😂 today we gonna try to make a first post together!
We started with primal. I let her chose between YakiHonne, Damus and Primal and she liked primal from the ux the best but I told her there won’t be any translation 😂 so today we will try Damus 🙌🏻
It would be great if/when yakihonne does more translation. I think their longer form messages and UI could appeal to more users. Let us know if she likes Damus
Can’t wait to hear about her experience on Damus!
Yes! I'm trying to come for two weeks this time. Bringing the whole family 🤗
I heard there will be a Nostr Lounge 🤭
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Amazing!