HurvajsRumcajs on Nostr: The idea you only see what friends and friends of your friends post is quite a ...

The idea you only see what friends and friends of your friends post is quite a radical one if you're trying to grow the network. Yes it probably works well if many of your friends are cypherpunks or if you get onboarded at a meetup where a lot of people know other vexl (npub1mft…rkl3) users. But for someone who doesn't have an easy way to get these contact it's a dead end. So of course we use hacks like the helpdesk phone nr. But how many would be vexl users just gave up because their experience is an empty offers screen?

I still think the vexl app should show you everything and let you know who is a friend, who is a friend of a friend and who is not related to your contacts at all. And you decide what risks (not) to take, not the app.

Phone nr contacts are also a bit problematic, I don't want to share my nr on nostr. But perhaps if vexl (also) used npubs as contacts, that would help with the network effect. With npubs also comes the zapping address, post history... what's not to like?