Pablo Xannybar on Nostr: 1. Twitter has literally been testing in prod ever since Elon set foot in the ...
1. Twitter has literally been testing in prod ever since Elon set foot in the offices. Funnily enough, adding zaps would be one of the smoothest, least buggy things Twitter does because Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey are friends irl. Jack owns CashApp which has zaps built in. If Elon wanted this for Twitter he could simply ask Jack for help from Block.
2. I have never paid for a relay I didn't control and I am still able to interact with Nostr just fine. On Twitter, if you don't pay, your tweets are buried by the algorithm. It's apples and oranges. Additionally I am extending my offer: I own one paid relay (bitcoinforthe.lol) and one non-paid but invite only relay (nostr.xanny.family) and I'll give you free access to both if you want. I don't care about the money. I care about not seeing spam on Nostr.
2b. Content creators are not being charged on Nostr. In fact, you've given me an idea, I can make a relay exclusively for content creators. The creators can join free and get to broadcast their notes free. Users can read from it but not write to it. That gives you a "one stop shop" directory of content creators on your feed simply from adding a relay.
Nostr also already has: its own blogging service with a choice of self-hosted frontends (if you want to self-host them), integration with podcast apps that pay creators directly via zaps, it already has its own version of Twitter Spaces called Nests, you can use it to post art, and videos are coming along nicely.
The difference is this. Twitter is talking about taking a ~40% cut of revenues from creators. In all fairness, this is due in part to higher overhead: all those AWS bills pile up.
Nostr, being inherently decentralised, does not have this concern. As long as there's people running relays, Nostr profiles will load up. No need for invasive ads and creators keep all the money their fans send them.
How is that not better for creators? Because sometimes relay admins charge a few cents one-off so spammers go elsewhere?
Also, let's look at this objectively. As @npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m rightfully pointed out, Twitter has been around 17 years. The fact Nostr is catching up and, in many cases, beating Twitter to market with innovations is very impressive.
3. You seem to be conflating two different things here. Clients and relays are not the same thing. You can have 50 relays in one client, and if you switch between clients, it remembers your relays because they're linked to your "account" (keypair).
Whether the UX is better is subjective, but I'd argue Damus and Plebstr are superior to the Twitter app in almost every way.
2. I have never paid for a relay I didn't control and I am still able to interact with Nostr just fine. On Twitter, if you don't pay, your tweets are buried by the algorithm. It's apples and oranges. Additionally I am extending my offer: I own one paid relay (bitcoinforthe.lol) and one non-paid but invite only relay (nostr.xanny.family) and I'll give you free access to both if you want. I don't care about the money. I care about not seeing spam on Nostr.
2b. Content creators are not being charged on Nostr. In fact, you've given me an idea, I can make a relay exclusively for content creators. The creators can join free and get to broadcast their notes free. Users can read from it but not write to it. That gives you a "one stop shop" directory of content creators on your feed simply from adding a relay.
Nostr also already has: its own blogging service with a choice of self-hosted frontends (if you want to self-host them), integration with podcast apps that pay creators directly via zaps, it already has its own version of Twitter Spaces called Nests, you can use it to post art, and videos are coming along nicely.
The difference is this. Twitter is talking about taking a ~40% cut of revenues from creators. In all fairness, this is due in part to higher overhead: all those AWS bills pile up.
Nostr, being inherently decentralised, does not have this concern. As long as there's people running relays, Nostr profiles will load up. No need for invasive ads and creators keep all the money their fans send them.
How is that not better for creators? Because sometimes relay admins charge a few cents one-off so spammers go elsewhere?
Also, let's look at this objectively. As @npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m rightfully pointed out, Twitter has been around 17 years. The fact Nostr is catching up and, in many cases, beating Twitter to market with innovations is very impressive.
3. You seem to be conflating two different things here. Clients and relays are not the same thing. You can have 50 relays in one client, and if you switch between clients, it remembers your relays because they're linked to your "account" (keypair).
Whether the UX is better is subjective, but I'd argue Damus and Plebstr are superior to the Twitter app in almost every way.