What will make Nostr viral in the next 5 years?
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More entrepreneuers. More people willing to spend bitcoin (ideally), and/or additional methods of payment integrated into apps.
more top less dudes are going to send it to the moon. π«‘
Bitcoin. This happened to me already. I use bitcoin as my everyday money. Thanks to company like @npub1tand...8sax
Number go up is the best marketing for the whole ecosystem
The same thing that drives people over the edge to use GrapheneOS and pay for VPNs, will continue to cause nostr grow. That beings the base.
The normies flood in when there is some big name that exclusively publishes here. What does it take for nostr to fulfill the original @npub1sg6p...f63m vision? It is that famous person who moves exclusively to nostr, who must want to reach the nostr audience as his base, for whatever reason, maybe because of bitcoin, sovereignty or uncensorability.
It could be a politician, a musician, an actor, a journalist, someone who wants to reach bitcoiners.
The problem with those kinds of people today is they themselves tend to cater to normies, therefore they won't be "exclusive" to any one platform unless it is already part of their public identity. We can't expect anyone in that position to move exclusively to nostr unless they are meeting resistance everywhere else, and they will get a full-featured toolset they had elsewhere (video podcasting (tubestr), long-form blogs (talking/highlighter), livestream (nests, zap stream), AI integration (nothing yet), identity validation (wot), etc). We are very close to parity already.
This is why, when people are ejected from the mainstream, we need to have a pipeline for them (Twitter/FB/bluesky/mastodon/reddit post-to-nostr porting), including a way to identify and educate them about nostr (marketing & "business development").
Right now we aren't scooping these types up. Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson, etc, they should already be here. Potential leads today: Tulsi Gabbord, Jack Kruse, Matt Gaetz. Maybe add to that list dejected historians, philosophers, journalists, etc. - ones who want to cater to self-sovereign people, and those who want to bring their audience with them.
The ecosystem now is so much stronger than when it was during the jackening. We gotta be ready for when that person/people come π«‘
Exactly. Kindly zap my note. Thanks
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Annoying. Nome of these people seem remotely cypherpunk.
The next wave wonβt come from speculation. Itβll come from builders creating products people actually use.
While I appreciate the responses, not a single thing said in the video matter to the average social media user.
They want to be able to find and interact with desired content quickly and easily and they want engagement on their content. Period.
Nostr / freedom tech enjoyers suffer from the same bubble paralysis that Bitcoiners do when they can't figure out why Normie Ned and Nancy won't try it or don't stick around if they do.
Answers:
Fun
Pain
Girls
Zaps
Profit
Great UX
Censorship
Interoperable apps.
Yes.
Things can just happen overnight. For the social side, Iβm still waiting for one or two major people to just drop it all and go Nostr only.
And ya, you can just make an app that uses Nostr without saying the n word.
Keep building yall π«‘
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What an annoying comment
Good. Try being more human. Cypherpunk would be ideal, but at least human...
Primal has done more to drive people away from Nostr than anything else.
Censorship, rate limiting, harassment of people that complain.
What's actually going to grow nostr is a client without some secret fucked up evil agenda
Best part about nostr, pick a different client π«‘
Kayne - What censorship and rate limiting have you seen or experienced?
Grow up.
Seriously you people are so obnoxious.
I use primal, you fucking retards can fuck off.
Every fucking time someone that uses primal makes a suggestion, points out a bug, complains about literally anything.
All you retards come in to defend them, just making excuses for enshitification. Fuck off.
Grow up.
Seriously you people are so obnoxious.
I use primal, you fucking retards can fuck off.
Every fucking time someone that uses primal makes a suggestion, points out a bug, complains about literally anything.
All you retards come in to defend them, just making excuses for enshitification. Fuck off.
Yup not easy to do.
lol... dude, you've lost it. I was actually curious, and that's your response? Whatever.
mixer de bitcoin integrado e. todos os clientes
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Chill out man. Software only improves if people make reports. You miss the best part about the protocol. If primal isn't your thing for the reasons you've cited then take your data and identity somewhere else. You cant do this on X or FB etc... If enough people do this primal dies and a better option takes its place.
Its not that primal gets a free pass - its actually the opposite as the protocol lives on with or without them.
Best of luck π»
Kind of like BTC, most normies don't have a use for it... Yet.
I have a feeling big tech will keep f ing things up. Wonder how many will stay when X requires ID "to fight spam and protect the kids".
Glowies
I understand that Google ads ruin privacy but is there no way to run ads that can be private & generate a little bit of money for devs
How long does it take to load the app?