Electric Sheep on Nostr: "What can we in Nostr learn from the recent surge in users for bluesky and mastodon?" ...
"What can we in Nostr learn from the recent surge in users for bluesky and mastodon?"
1) People go where they think they'll find their friends.
2) We need to keep working to unify all the ethical social web projects, both the networked ones and the monoliths. I believe Minds are now federating over Matrix (for their chat) and ActivityPub (for posts). Are they publishing to Nostr too? If not, what's the quickest and easiest way for them to start doing that?
3) People are more likely to use things they've heard of. We need to find grassroots ways to promote decentralised projects that don't depend on the tech press or FB ads.
4) People have drunk the kool-aid and they think BS is decentralised. It isn't, it's yet another VC-funded platforms and will enshittify accordingly;
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast
1) People go where they think they'll find their friends.
2) We need to keep working to unify all the ethical social web projects, both the networked ones and the monoliths. I believe Minds are now federating over Matrix (for their chat) and ActivityPub (for posts). Are they publishing to Nostr too? If not, what's the quickest and easiest way for them to start doing that?
3) People are more likely to use things they've heard of. We need to find grassroots ways to promote decentralised projects that don't depend on the tech press or FB ads.
4) People have drunk the kool-aid and they think BS is decentralised. It isn't, it's yet another VC-funded platforms and will enshittify accordingly;
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast