This is why nostr won't find itsnfull potential:

Most people use primal despite everything. We're ok.

F'ing finally lol

Took me a minute. I don’t use amethyst But I’ll have it as my background.

It's still absolutely everywhere in various forms. It's not an amethyst-specific issue, it way bigger than that lol. But essentially no point thinking about it cos nostr is bitcointwitter2 and that's the way people want it

Nostr is a protocol. I guess everyone can vibe code it how they want it these days. 🚬

Nice idea, but that idea never materialised, it's just a slogan now. A slogan on bitcointwitter2.

I tried really hard to make it about Italian cuisine and alcoholism in summer. It's just too cold rn to continue doing that!

1 sat zappers are annoying but they’re not the reason nostr isn’t growing 😂

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😂 indoor alcoholism isn't nearly so glamorous, is it?

Nah. Totally not my vibe. Drinking in the middle of lemon and orange trees it is. Now that I mentioned it, I urgently need to water the plants.

Do I need to set you up on a reminder schedule? I'll do it... I am a relentless annoyance to those who are willing to embrace it 😊

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Nostr only gets art like this because of 1-sat zappers 😝

I'm simultaneously getting serious "boiling frog" and "like and subscribe" vibes 🤣

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Zap farmers on nostr complaining about 1 sat zaps for memes and quotes that they copy from twitter. View quoted note →

Zap farmers complaining about one sat zaps trying to say it encourages other zap farmers

Hahaha lilbro got ratiod by this 😂

Corn has devolved into the most insufferable baby on nostr. Constantly whining.

To be honest, in my view: - like it or not, Lightning is a failure. Not because it doesn't work, but because to be sovereign in your own home you have to host a BTC node. Nowadays, that means a BitAxe/NerdMiner + a home server or dedicated Raspi with a bit of storage (let's say 2TB to last a reasonable while) and some bandwidth too. The cost is within reach for many, but the complexity isn't. Some, like frigghome.ai, have thought of pre-packaged solutions, but as of today there isn't really a "buy this device at a low enough price and become a BTC node with only basic knowledge" option. The result is that most people open channels with anyone and often get scammed or, at the very least, aren't truly free depending on a specific third party. - The economic model is fine in theory, but we need a complete reference stack. We need ONE single and unique WebApp that is easy to install via 'go install' or 'pip install' etc, without dependencies that it doesn't pull in itself and not much of them anyway, easy to package for various distros, very self-contained (proxable via NGINX/* but also usable directly without nothing else than './such_app serve'. It should offer a complete and well-documented textual config, with an admin WebUI for those who don't manage via text. We need an Habla that is a serious, modern blog capable of scaling for years of posts, not an infinite scroll of tiles. We need a Reddit/Lemmy-style WebUI for those who want to comment, a Twitter-style one (which is in almost every Nostr client today) for those who want that, and a chat for those who want that. Nothing more confusing, nothing else if not via plugins. Technically speaking, almost everything exists, but unfortunately it's in scattered pieces that seem written in a rush, without a very clear vision, in Silicon Valley mode, then abandoned, undocumented, all needing to be pieced together and with very varied NIP support. I'm an "old school" sysadmin, not that old, but born in a *nix environment, and well, I should be the typical early adopter. I set up my own relay, already cursing at the less-than-stellar documentation. I looked for a client and already ran into problems compiling Gossip, which has a gazillion dependencies. I haven't set up my own Blossom or Habla yet, and I don't even know if I will because I like the idea of Nostr and I like some of the comments I read here and there, but searching is a mess; it's more about people than topics, and anyone who arrives does so for topics, and that's how we discover people... A user who knows nothing finds clients with obvious limitations and questionable, confusing UIs that seem to be trying to replicate the dopamine design of commercial social media... It's not great for attracting people especially those who don't understand the value of the underlying protocol because, let's face it, there are many hours of FLOSS work worthy of all due respect, but once you take away the protocol, the rest of the code is a mass of inconsistent and confused sketches and experiments. It surprises me that it's holding up and I'm only exploring it for Nostr itself, but... I don't know how the average user could possibly be interested.