Do "bug reports", or "bitching about bad UX" count as "contributing" to Nostr? because if so, then call me "fiatGlobe99" 😆

Want to make Nostr more accessible? Users need to foster communities around things other than Bitcoin. Bitcoin is great, but a thriving social media site should have communities spanning many interests and topics. Otherwise Nostr just becomes a BTC forum, and fails to really achieve being a social network. Where's the music discussion (and not crappy AI music about BTC posted on Wavlake). Where's the gaming community? Where's the sports community? Given the nature of Nostr, where the hell are the cypherpunks?! People on Nostr seem to be under the impression that the only thing they can discuss here is crypto and its off-putting to the average web user that isn't a crypto bro or BTC maxi. We as users need to be the ones to #grownostr ourselves, and we're doing a poor job.

One thing I've been banging the drum on recently is to improve the Mastodon bridge. There are ~1million DAU's on Mastodon, very few of which are even talking about Bitcoin. Unfortunately, both the #mostr and #momostr bridges are fundamentally broken and barely usable. This is an insanely simple "growth hack" that we're all just ignoring. (I have my theories on why...)

I would just say in fairness there are several interesting npub's here who talk about non-BTC-related topics... But you're right, there aren't anything approaching distinct "communities", because you just don't get that with ~15k DAU's.

There are definitely a minority posting about topics other than BTC, but Nost interfaces need to come up with a better way to make them discoverable (maybe implement a groups or communities feature). Nothing about Nostr fosters communities our discussion outside of BTC, partially at the fault of us users. I'm happy to talk BTC, but its not the only thing I want to talk about 24/7

I'd suggest hashtags... That's how I surface a lot of conversations I wouldn't find otherwise. Although again, most of that content comes bridged from Mastodon. And the Mostr bridge is one-way, so.... I'm trying to "be the change" by talking about stuff that's interesting to me, but I agree it can be frustrating.

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My own solution to growing nostr was to build divine.video which has generated a lot of excitement by people who want to use it and don’t even know to care that it’s nostr. Do something you can’t do in other social media ecosystems. Divine works because we have nostr libraries and blossom and relays and a ton of other things. It was much easier to build on Nostr than building the entire protocol from scratch. But it would have been easier to build centralized than on Nostr, if we didn’t care about freedom and a permissionless future.

Done!

Need dev education for nontechs. Need education for navigating nostr in general for more adoption.