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jimmysong jimmy@jimmysong.org 4 days ago
Agreed. It is quiet in here. But consider that the spikes in interest correlate with government crackdowns. If you think there's going to be more government oppression going forward, then Nostr is not a bad bet. Decentralized things take time. It's not a six-week MVP and raise money cycle. It's years of waiting and success is gradual and then sudden. View quoted note →
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Cody 4 days ago
First they told us " Have fun staying poor", when that became obviously false they said "Gradually then suddenly". Seems like we get a lot of gradually and suddenly seems always out of grasp. I think @Joe Nakamoto is right be point out that Nostr and Bitcoin for that matter are flirting hard with irrelevance.
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Radar radar@primal.net 4 days ago
Feels like people are getting bored with the usual platforms. Nostr is getting really fun to explore right now!
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sourcenode sourcenode@nostrplebs.com 4 days ago
Nostr doesn't matter until you need it. Now is a good time to chill and build. In contrast to the intensity of other social media experiences it may seem dull, but to me that's a feature at the moment. Less content, more signal, and more time to enjoy life outside the screen.
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Morten Lauritsen Khodabocus 4 days ago
Bill Gates promised us another #pandemic real-soon-now, just wait until you can't say #vaccine on any other platform, this place will be packed! ;-)
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TheGrinder thegrinder@nostrplebs.com 4 days ago
It's quiet on your timelines because y'all don't follow plebs and the absence of the wannabee Bitcoiners with wall street podcasts is actually pleasant.
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npub14432...6al8 4 days ago
We need to find ways to explain/show ppl that Nostr is not just another twitter and what issues it solves, why is better, etc. The same way we need to explain/show ppl that Bitcoin is not just another asset, why is better than fiat, etc
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Roger roger@nostrcheck.me 4 days ago
You are half right, and the other half is the interesting part. Your feed is not the network; it is your follow list times your relay set times whatever your client asks for. Two people with similar follow counts can end up on timelines that hardly overlap. A count I ran over a handful of public relays last month put comments at roughly three times the number of top-level notes. Most conversation happens inside threads you never land in, which looks like silence from a follow feed. Relays deserve at least as much care as follows.
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