Bad marketing for Nostr clients to position as “wallets.”
Being money-obsessed is low-status. And social media is all about status.
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Nostr isn't social media, most clients aren't
Portable identity and interoperability is Nostr's best feature > Zaps
Nobody here really gives a fuck what social media thinks, stay humble produce value and stack sats...
Primal is the only client I know that has a built in wallet, and marketing this way. Everyone else is commited, with optimism, that new models will work themselves out. https://www.nostrapps.com/
Love that you're here with pause like this
Not all clients do that
Interesting
in the old fiat world, it's about credentialism status, but we are entering a new hard money world and it will celebrate proof of work status
Thanks for caring enough to provide this feedback @Naval! You’re right; our current tagline misses the mark. Planning to change it for the upcoming 2.0 release.
"Social Media" is all about status so these influencoors can get endorsement deals and make money off people indirectly. Better a system where people can directly tip content creators for stuff they like.
What app are you using?
"I've just discovered Nostr, and I'm here to fix it" 🤡
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I don't think it's bad marketing. Nostr doesn't have a singular use case. I don't understand how it's being money obsessed.
Sound money is my time and energy stored and available to me anytime to send via Nostr to anyone globally. Nothing low status about that. Nostr is a protocol that enables me to be free among many other things
Low status to me is being on Twitter needing followers to validate your nonsense. Empty legacy BS
Thanks for this feedback!
Both of these features are on our to-do list; they will be added to the product before long. Keep the feedback coming!
Easy talk for a rich rich man.
Meh. So much of this stuff is "gee maybe we're just using the wrong words, if we use the 'magic' words crowds will show up!"
"Wallet" is standard for the field. We don't want to go about inventing an entirely new language. If someone understands and knows what crypto/bitcoin is, they'll know what a "wallet" is.
The problem isn't that we're using "wallet", or that we're using Sats instead of $'s, or any of that. It's that nobody knows what Nostr is. It's purely marketing.
> 19 zaps
You earned it, ser!
Wisp has one built-in, but there’s no “Start in wallet” feature like Primal, and the wallet button isn’t front and center on the menu. It also has a “Fiat mode” for people who don’t think in bitcoin.