There’s nothing “weird” about it. Decentralisation comes with clear drawbacks in the marketplace. Nostr may be superior technically, in almost EVERY way, but there is no coordinated communications effort. I posted about this two weeks ago, and half the responses were: “oh you’re too bearish on Nostr” or “look at all the cool tech we’re building”. And that’s precisely my point. The focus has ALL been on the tech (and rightly so). But my entire argument was that the gaze needs to begin to shift towards communications & go to market. There’s no point building the coolest car if nobody knows about it. Unfortunately, I don’t know if the @OpenSats people agree with this (they seem to be the only org funding collective initiatives). They just ignored the post despite tagging them. Either OpenSats needs to fund some marketing efforts, or these efforts ultimately come down to the businesses building on Nostr. The best option would be BOTH. I have some other ideas. I’ll DM you and see what you think. In the meantime, GOLDEN opportunities like this are being completely missed or just not taken advantage of. Nostr should’ve grown by a million users this week, not fucking Blue Sky. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

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What I was thinking about it to send zaps to a fund that all it does is push advertising. That in turn brings more people to the protocol and we will get our investment from zaps tenfold. Or is this just not doable now. We already have shared zaps.
Who cares?! Truly. Just like folks getting bitcoin at the price they deserve, they’ll find nostr when they need to. All this talk about forced growth are counterproductive. Furthermore, if you want something to happen, make it happen. Things improve by change not chance. Too many folks with too many followers thinking that makes them relevant. We are all irrelevant.
OPENSATS DOES NOT FUND MARKETING. WE ARE FOCUSED ON SUPPORTING HUNDREDS OF OPEN SOURCE CONTRIBUTORS. IF YOU THINK MORE MARKETING IS NEEDED THEN DO IT.
nostr is not competing with Bluesky or any other bullshit platform, some clients may want to but that's difficult to pull off without external funding or sustainable business models. This still needs to be figured out, most devs are still exploring what's possible here. That said I can appreciate your competitive mentality and not sticking with the usual 'it's still early'.
To me it likes you have a lot of FOMO around external happenings. Pull. Don’t push. Go with a long-time preference.
I just think the next step is clients marketing themselves, not nostr. Just saying nostr doesn't really inform anyone of where to go. From the users point of view they are looking for a new client, not a protocol. Although in nostrs case each new client user is equally a new protocol user :)
I don't think this makes sense. Separate clients by themselves cannot offer a compelling alternative. Hiding the protocol from usets is a losing move. If a client tries to compete in the market as if it was a proprietary platform, and if any succeed it will be by capturing and breaking the network.
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the axiom 1 year ago
maybe you should try to stop pasting these malware links in your posts if you want to be taken seriously
Nostr isn't superior in every way. Centralization has technical advantages. It makes meaningful search easier. It makes discovery easier. I think it's important to recognize and be honest about the inherent limits of Nostr. What I hope will happen is that more people will use Nostr, alongside with centralized (or federated, like Mastodon) platform with express free speech policies.
I agree with you. I'm not in a position to fund any grand projects, but I'm meeting with a potential partner to discuss starting a media effort to draw business owners to #nostr with examples of how to work it into their business plans.