GM. This essay is a must read. Some of my highlights: “When the self-sovereign option spooks users while the centralized option feels safe, we haven’t built freedom tech. We’ve built a hobby for risk-tolerant technical elites.” “Winning means marketing to people who just want better payments, better social media, better financial tools—who discover the inherent benefits after they’re already using the product.” “We have maybe five years before CBDCs entrench, before network effects compound, before switching costs compound dramatically. That’s the window. Every product decision matters. UX can’t be an afterthought. Commercial excellence has to match technical excellence.” “People use Nostr when it’s the best social platform, not because they’re making a political statement.” View quoted note →

More capital formation needs to happen in Nostr ASAP. It’s not all evil… there’s a lot of wisdom built up over decades of startup iteration. Especially in the US. You can also register a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation like we did, codifying your mission and adding a dimension on top of fiduciary duty:

I love a good read and this is an excellent one. View quoted note →

LFG.

Have you considered publishing your essays as articles on Nostr? Thanks!

I have. I look forward to long form publishing and reading improving on nostr, but at present, it's not there.

Have a look at Nostria, what you think of this reading experience? It also have a long form editor.

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Honest feedback: it suffers from what I see from most clients, which is overloading with features. It's a dizzyingly complex UI. If I could wave a magic wand, I'd want something very close to buttondown.com (newsletter host), where I can control the visual design, write (using markdown) and publish, then manage "subscribers". Second to that, I see Substack as the king of online self-publishing. That feature set, built on nostr, is a killer app.

Thanks for testing! Great feedback, I'll get it done!

Here is the article editors compared. I'll remove the "New Article" headline, I'll move the fixed toolbar to the top and reintroduce the formatting toolbar that (I will keep the in-line hover toolbar as well (based on Medium editor). I'll move the abstract to the top after title, similar to Substack. Then I'll also look at the general UI of rest of Substack. I've had this idea of a e-mail service with summary sent every day, could combine this with an e-mailing/subscription like capability such as Substack.

I have updated the article editing experience greatly, hope this feels much better!

Looking good!