This is unironically the way to go. Only nerds that bother to learn the tools deserve freedom. Fuck mass adoption.
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Nah this is cope imo, we built a clunky ass UX all running off of damus relay and call it freedom tech, kind of a fail
How is it cope if it works for you? Why do you need the other 7 billion tiktok zombies to feel accomplished?
Mass abstraction is also fine. Godspeed.
also this will naturally make things move slower and fuck up less which i think satoshi mentioned a couple times
We fuck up just the same 🤣🤣🤣
There is a whole beautiful world out there outside of our Bitcoin echo chamber, it's not all zombies
We should want to attract artists and other content creators but instead we just cope and say it's fine with like 40 bitcoiners repeating mantras
And it basically doesn't work, most clients cannot find notes that aren't on the big relays, which is just Twitter all over again but with more steps and worse UX
hahah I like this. I used to try orange pilling people. I sucked at it. Eventually I stopped talking about bitcoin altogether. The slower the adoption curve, the longer I have to stack.
wait are we talking about bitcoin, or nostr?
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Shooting for mass adoption typically ends up in the production of anti-features as seen in bluesky and Mastodon
This is unironically the way to go. Only nerds that bother to learn the tools deserve freedom. Fuck mass adoption.
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Completely agree on fuck mass adoption (or I should say aiming for it) and meanwhile completely disagree on remaining lazy with UX. I'm a nerd and want beautiful easy to use tools
I'm trying my best to build freedom tech with the masses in mind (and even nerds deserve good UX)
Doesn't mean I care if the masses never arrive
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We can do our best to make it available to everyone, but it is probably the case that many will not utilize it.
UX should be perfected by the people that willingly want to use a tool, not the potential mass adoption normies or the proverbial grandma.
Nothing prevents you from enjoying the world outside nostr, no need to forcefully bring everything inside it. Most of my time is spent outide.
Any reasonable product designer will target people who willingly want to use the tool first and try to make it easier for others on the fence.
It's certainly a nuanced discussion and there are tradeoffs. Is making it normie-friendly making it less effective as a freedom tool?