TJ on Nostr: On the topic of Nostr's popularity, I was talking to my little brother about Nostr, ...
On the topic of Nostr's popularity, I was talking to my little brother about Nostr, and he said he just doesn't care too much about social media, too burned out for it, even if decentralized. People hear "social media" these days, and the association is completely negative.
Maybe Nostr should not try to mimic and replicate the twitters and instagrams of the world, but really get wacky and creative.
Some creative examples I can think of:
1. Create a Nostr client that only allows 50 follows and 50 followers. Max. You can only add one per day, and remove one per day. The rationale: Coffee meets Bagels was my favorite dating app. They had a limit to how many people you could swap through per day. The limit runs counter to the infinite scrolling model of endless attention grabbing. It really makes you select carefully. It changes the dynamics of engagement.
2. A Nostr client where you are a cat, and everyone is a cat. And you all do cat related things. Another Nostr client where you are a foot, and...ahem. Anyways. The idea is you have these separate clients for separate interests and sub communities. All controlled with the same Nsec key/s.
To conclude: We used to have areas of freedom on the internet. Like Tumblr, reddit, etc. Now that it has all been taken away from us (even reddit has become a cesspool of propaganda), Nostr's only real obstacle to mass adoption is really creating a fertile ground for people to come. Just my 2 satoshis, off the top of my head.
Maybe Nostr should not try to mimic and replicate the twitters and instagrams of the world, but really get wacky and creative.
Some creative examples I can think of:
1. Create a Nostr client that only allows 50 follows and 50 followers. Max. You can only add one per day, and remove one per day. The rationale: Coffee meets Bagels was my favorite dating app. They had a limit to how many people you could swap through per day. The limit runs counter to the infinite scrolling model of endless attention grabbing. It really makes you select carefully. It changes the dynamics of engagement.
2. A Nostr client where you are a cat, and everyone is a cat. And you all do cat related things. Another Nostr client where you are a foot, and...ahem. Anyways. The idea is you have these separate clients for separate interests and sub communities. All controlled with the same Nsec key/s.
To conclude: We used to have areas of freedom on the internet. Like Tumblr, reddit, etc. Now that it has all been taken away from us (even reddit has become a cesspool of propaganda), Nostr's only real obstacle to mass adoption is really creating a fertile ground for people to come. Just my 2 satoshis, off the top of my head.