calvadev⚡️ @calvadev⚡️ - 23d
Social media is the first step in bootstrapping the "trust" network and proving the utility of Nostr. The problem is that social-first is highly saturated and honestly not that interesting; the "global" view and town square models have largely been captured and also don't seem sustainable and reliable over time as AI fills more and more of the content landscape. Unless the focus is on more niche and nascent communities, this is not what will allow Nostr to grow; we can see this with the relative lack of user inflows during outage and censorship events (though those tools are obviously much better served on Nostr than siloed platforms, so it's still a very important thing to work towards freeing the town square). What will supplant standard social media as the driver for greater adoption will be placing the movement of money at the front and center of applications. This means marketplaces, yes, but also more UX focused on encouraging and reducing the friction of social monetary movement, like baked-in wallets, zap-first feeds, and (of course) nuts in emojis. Money makes the trade-offs between the silos and open networks much more obvious and incentivizes users to learn to care. Owning the social graph and content itself is powerful, but not convincing enough; the capital flow that the social graph unlocks is key. nostr:nevent1qqsf4g3fp350t7r8x6p0pwc7f57yjhhnm2gva3njvcyq3ywjjugykggppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgsxdqfx3t8ywjx5rfx0es0xgqr0hy6mhs6e0q4nm9s37ex4r3n49kgrqsqqqqqpynv6qw
Enough of a ramble for today... Off to bed!
Gigi and 21 others @Gigi and 21 others - 23d
YES #YESTR
Shitposts or PGP signing parties. The choice is yours. nostr:nevent1qqsxamtw3wcaqyhfgx3ep5lmcupgtl4u56q8pl3v0hvl89m0yyah4zqpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q3q6dhgpql60vmd4mnydjut87vla23a38j689jssaqlqqlzrtqtd0kqxpqqqqqqzq8qh67
calvadev⚡️ @calvadev⚡️ - 22d
I thought you would say this... 😅 I now how you feel about ecash, so I won't even go there. With zaps I can somewhat see what you mean, but the fundamental thing is that it changes the consumer behavior to go out for your way to pay someone for something that was put out for free, and that alone is quite powerful in shifting the way people use the internet and money over it.
The reason money movement, at least in my view, is critical to increasing usage is because people are too accustomed to having everything paid for on a rolling basis and being passive purchasers. Your last statement on payments is a hopeful outlook, but won't play out because most people don't and just won't care about "being a product" or supporting a hobbyist. There has to be an intrinsic and seamless shift towards changing that for a value and utility-based internet, yes, which comes from getting people to be directly involved in the transferring of money. I do see infrastructure as a great way to get more people onboarded as well; I actually think Nostr should be primarily "marketed" towards product builders as a cheaper and more resilient architecture, rather than to media consumers as an uncensorable network. That also ties in with you utility and value driven point, with more builders bringing more utility and unlocking more value.
