“increase nostr user growth _just like everyone else_” is a mischaracterization.
I’m not trying to increase nostr user growth, I’m trying to expand what the current users can do with the protocol. If these new human capabilities are valuable, user growth will naturally follow.
Personally, I think the tendency to think “of course everyone is trying to increase growth” - like that’s the most natural and obvious necessity for the ecosystem - is itself a mindset I’d prefer my network have less of.
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Based and refreshing take.
Build for usefulness. User growth is a natural happy "bonus symptom" of the usefulness.
Well said. There is so much like this. NGU. Optimizing for profit margin. Irrelevance Maxxing.
I actually think the opposite is better. You're basically saying if you build it they will come.
I think if they come, we will have a better idea of what needs to be built.
Let demand shape supply.
why would they come for nothing? it's the pioneers who move out onto the open frontier - and the families and everyone else only comes out once the wells are dug and farms started and shops opened.
we don't need more pioneers; nostr has to be one of the highest pioneer:villager ratios on the internet. the villagers won't appear in numbers until they have a village to inhabit.
very few villagers are the type to pack up their kids, leave their cozy beds and come sleep in the dirt while helpfully reporting to you all the ways they'd like the houses built, and then continue living in a ditch while you get to work.
no bro
if only we get Google logins and drool-proof custodial LN wallets "freedom tech" will win 🙄
You're calling me a tramp?
(You're right)
Solid
