It's such an obvious problem (The Most Common Complaint) I have to wonder why clients haven't tried something different at onboarding? Probably because growth/retention is the main thing, and bitcointwitter people actually stay (because they have found bitcointwitter2 lol).
The radio and permaculture communities are hopeful and should be amplified at onboarding (imo). Perhaps there is an idea that they are too niche, and the mythological normies from TikTok must be appealed to (they haven't even heard of Nostr and they're not coming any time soon lol). Meanwhile supposedly 'niche' Meshtastic content on YouTube can get millions of views.
Permaculture and radio content is sort of venn diagram a bitcoin community thing (preppery type stuff). And the hope is the Venn diagrams of content and communities spreads further out. Whilst also battling against the bitcointwitter sloganeering putting lots of people off.
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There is also a hope that the people who have taken a look around seen it's just bitcointwitter2 and left will one day come back and find Other Stuff.
Maybe in a few years?
Another group with a lot of potential is actually orthodox (spelled with a small "o") Christians. There's no "bigger" social media aimed at serving them, and they are a large, highly-literate, politically-persecuted minority, so they tend to spend a lot of time online.
We've been focusing on applications they might like, for that reason. Nostr seems like a good fit and they are over-represented here, already. Just no real "gathering place", yet. Hope #Alexandria can provide that.
Yes, absolutely.
As a slight aside. I know he's a devisive figure and I've suggested this before but Jay Dyer (capitalised O Orthodox here) would be an almost perfect person to onboard. Large following, already a bitcoiner (he even buys shirts from lightning store lol), already accept (on-chain), regular slots on the alex jones show etc. I'm not saying people should agree with him or like him, but he seems an obvious choice of 'influencer' to have some sort of presence here. Even if it were just a client buying a regular promo slot on his YouTube if not. Who knows.
