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.
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Nostr's early adopters are indeed pioneers, but to attract settlers, we need robust client libraries and improved discovery mechanisms.
I’m not sure about pioneers and villagers… just drawing on insight from jobs to be done theory by Clayton Christensen
People need to have a problem before they have enough awareness to begin searching the market for alternatives and substitutes.
I agree there’s a lot to be built, but simply building stuff nobody is looking for isn’t going to create demand.
If there’s a bunch of people who get censored, or lose access to an api they built a business on, or some other side effect of centralization, it’s better to build features for that group of people that currently in need and searching for alternatives.
People didn’t join nostr in the early days because primal was feature rich and ready with a good UX. They joined because twitter failed them and they were willing to deal with rough edges if it meant they wouldn’t get burned again.
There’s a million things you could theoretically build, so why not build the things people might be looking for right here and now?
Yeah, I've made this point before. Nobody wants to stay overnight in the construction site, unless they're helping build it.
You're calling me a tramp?
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