Karnage on Nostr: Biggest complaints: - Bitcoin echo chamber / not enough variety of content - ...
Biggest complaints:
- Bitcoin echo chamber / not enough variety of content
- Difficult to use (my guess is these people have only tried it once 8 months ago lol..)
- Feeds not busy enough
- Toxic to web 3
My thoughts:
I bet we can solve a lot of these complaints just by asking people to select some topics to follow in onboarding and doing away with global entirely, or make it an optional thing. It seems global is responsible for turning people off because they see a bunch of spam / too much bitcoin content and or some other crap.
Topics solves some of this - they will see more focused content.
Better navigation UX can help - like browsing hashtags (see primal).
The network effects thing IS a challenge. Have to have users to create content and have to have content to attract users. Lists could help here. Even something as suggesting a list of RSS feeds that post on Tech news for example would be helpful. We already have RSS feeds for all sorts of stuff but they are difficult to surface.
Engaging with non-bitcoin content can help too (if you find it interesting, probably don’t want to force it).
Other than that I am not sure how to get more non-bitcoin users here other than creating a “safe space” for them where they don’t see that type of content at all. Whether that’s a bitcoin-free relay or a client that specifically mutes bitcoin terms via a pre-defined (user can still modify) mute list, or something else I can’t think of atm.
- Bitcoin echo chamber / not enough variety of content
- Difficult to use (my guess is these people have only tried it once 8 months ago lol..)
- Feeds not busy enough
- Toxic to web 3
My thoughts:
I bet we can solve a lot of these complaints just by asking people to select some topics to follow in onboarding and doing away with global entirely, or make it an optional thing. It seems global is responsible for turning people off because they see a bunch of spam / too much bitcoin content and or some other crap.
Topics solves some of this - they will see more focused content.
Better navigation UX can help - like browsing hashtags (see primal).
The network effects thing IS a challenge. Have to have users to create content and have to have content to attract users. Lists could help here. Even something as suggesting a list of RSS feeds that post on Tech news for example would be helpful. We already have RSS feeds for all sorts of stuff but they are difficult to surface.
Engaging with non-bitcoin content can help too (if you find it interesting, probably don’t want to force it).
Other than that I am not sure how to get more non-bitcoin users here other than creating a “safe space” for them where they don’t see that type of content at all. Whether that’s a bitcoin-free relay or a client that specifically mutes bitcoin terms via a pre-defined (user can still modify) mute list, or something else I can’t think of atm.
quoting note1j5c…d0w8I asked why people are still on X over at X. Looks like lots of people over there do not like nostr
https://x.com/jb55/status/1693507823752401157?s=46