pjosxyz on Nostr: Some people are posting about bluesky and their user numbers going up, saying Nostr ...
Some people are posting about bluesky and their user numbers going up, saying Nostr needs to onboard normies better.
I wonder...
On a very basic level I was sort of in agreement and thinking npub/pubKey -> Nostr Address and nsec/privKey -> Nostr Password might be a step in the right direction. Normal folk don't know about https, they just know sometimes their browser stops them from visiting some websites some times. Then there's stuff like diffie-hellman in tls handshakes (or whatever the f it is now), which is completely hidden from them.
But maybe hiding these details has ultimately hurt users in the long run? Obfuscating all the privacy/security stuff has bred most users to not be aware of or give a fuck about privacy, their data. If this is the case then do we want to repeat the same mistake with the Nostr protocol?
I've read articles saying that the UX craze with making everything as easy as possible for users so they can basically press face to glass to make app thing worky work has led to vast numbers of Gen Z not being familiar with a file system (possibly bs). A better internet, like a better society, is contingent on an educated internet participants I guess.
Is that what we're trying to build here? A better internet? Doesn't that neccescitate putting layers of friction in front of new users?
How important is it to get bajillions of users anyway? Afaik we don't have the relays to handle such an influx even if it were to happen? Obviously the whole thing dying on the vine with an ever dwindling amount of users posting seed-oil, Bitcoin and political memes (+ whatever it is the Japanese are posting) isnt' good either...
Seems like there was a big impetus for people to find alternative platforms from 2020 (2016?) up to very recently. Users had a problem: they were being censored by loonies. Rumble, Truth, Odyssey etc, more or less, solved that problem (and didn't require new mental models around account creation, recovery, and the other core user flows born from the client/server model).
Now X seems to have solved it for a lot more people, maybe the switch-cerious internet population has reduced drastically. (the bluesky switching, if it even lasts, seems to be motivated by partisan AmericanShit imo).
Obviously the real problem remains, these are all walled gardens. But I feel like the window for normies giving just enough of a fuck to consider alternatives like Nostr and implications of ceding their internet sovereignty to a small group of internet companies is closing/has closed.
Maybe. I dunno.
/rambling
--- one more thing
I'm reading the Block Size Wars at the moment and that seemed to boil to down to small blockers == long term vision of Bitcoin as a new form of money vs large blockers == short term vision of cheap and faster transactions, which would have still just been a shittier version of VISA at the end of the day replete with all the problems of centralisation.
It's definitely providing food for thought.
I wonder...
On a very basic level I was sort of in agreement and thinking npub/pubKey -> Nostr Address and nsec/privKey -> Nostr Password might be a step in the right direction. Normal folk don't know about https, they just know sometimes their browser stops them from visiting some websites some times. Then there's stuff like diffie-hellman in tls handshakes (or whatever the f it is now), which is completely hidden from them.
But maybe hiding these details has ultimately hurt users in the long run? Obfuscating all the privacy/security stuff has bred most users to not be aware of or give a fuck about privacy, their data. If this is the case then do we want to repeat the same mistake with the Nostr protocol?
I've read articles saying that the UX craze with making everything as easy as possible for users so they can basically press face to glass to make app thing worky work has led to vast numbers of Gen Z not being familiar with a file system (possibly bs). A better internet, like a better society, is contingent on an educated internet participants I guess.
Is that what we're trying to build here? A better internet? Doesn't that neccescitate putting layers of friction in front of new users?
How important is it to get bajillions of users anyway? Afaik we don't have the relays to handle such an influx even if it were to happen? Obviously the whole thing dying on the vine with an ever dwindling amount of users posting seed-oil, Bitcoin and political memes (+ whatever it is the Japanese are posting) isnt' good either...
Seems like there was a big impetus for people to find alternative platforms from 2020 (2016?) up to very recently. Users had a problem: they were being censored by loonies. Rumble, Truth, Odyssey etc, more or less, solved that problem (and didn't require new mental models around account creation, recovery, and the other core user flows born from the client/server model).
Now X seems to have solved it for a lot more people, maybe the switch-cerious internet population has reduced drastically. (the bluesky switching, if it even lasts, seems to be motivated by partisan AmericanShit imo).
Obviously the real problem remains, these are all walled gardens. But I feel like the window for normies giving just enough of a fuck to consider alternatives like Nostr and implications of ceding their internet sovereignty to a small group of internet companies is closing/has closed.
Maybe. I dunno.
/rambling
--- one more thing
I'm reading the Block Size Wars at the moment and that seemed to boil to down to small blockers == long term vision of Bitcoin as a new form of money vs large blockers == short term vision of cheap and faster transactions, which would have still just been a shittier version of VISA at the end of the day replete with all the problems of centralisation.
It's definitely providing food for thought.