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Agreed!
It's too triggering for me. I rather avoid the brainrot lol.
I think it’s hilarious that Rumble has a profile field for a Truth Social profile and not Nostr.
We are with you !
People will react to words. nostr is not a word that will attract anyone.
I can only take a minute or two a month.
I do feel a bit saddened as I believe this was a great opportunity that was missed, but these things are bound to happen like this when we don't have a centralized marketing team pushing for user growth. We'll keep building and eventually Nostr won't be able to be ignored.
Thank G’od Nostr was created by a Brazilian genius,Fiatjaf ! 🙏😎 And Coldcatd too,by mr NVK 😁⚡️
Welcome to Nostr 🤙
This.
Free Speech 🕊️
Welcome to Nostr. Set up a lightning wallet so we can send you zaps ⚡
Sure. http, smtp, pop3, and other acronyms don't attract people either. Netscape, Chrome, Gmail, etc, are products that did the heavy lifting of those protocols.
Didn't know that one! 🫂
Bem vindo mano!
O Brasil é uma ditadura
I haven't thought or dug into bluesky for a while but as I recall its open and decentralised. seems like an overall positive to me.
OK its not nostr. But could nostr handle 2 million new users in a week or so. Prob not.
Importntly too, I think its given the nostr community the drive to push harder. Cos we know nostr is better.
how? send me a tutorial safety for newbies
Ahh- this is exactly why they should have hired a social information architect like myself! Words matter for meaning making and yeah, #marketing and if it’s a conceptual word and fits mental model about #freedom even better! Like 2 M X better! #UX #information #architecture
Do you remember Koo, social platform really niche, one day Twitter had another issue, Koo got 2 million brasilian users in a weekend (mostly because in Portuguese Koo sounds like ass) Brasilian will come and go in waves folks down here are crazy with social platforms
odysee is a broken shitcoin that was rekt by the SEC and then bought by a shitcoin VC millionaire that serves dark interests now
Just like Bitcoin, eventually they *have* to listen.
Was satoshi Brazilian as well? 👀
But
@devsou.com is and he is creating his own Nostr client.
It is a bubble. The whole world uses twitter. Blue sky now is almost only Brazilians. I am using Nostr and Threads (also almost only brazilians), and hope to go back to X and use more and morr Nostr.
I’m heading over to Bluesky. They know how to treat their users right over there I hear.
Maybe they won't stay there for long and look for something better.
I waited for a Bluesky invite for a year or so, but never received one. I tried again with a different email (a disposable iCloud mail) and was able to gain access after a couple of days, so for some reason they must block my email provider.
After finally being able to try it out, I immediately encountered a bunch of racist posts within the first few seconds of browsing. I quit the app and never used it again. For some reason Bluesky is a cesspool, this stuff is usually rare and not something you see as your very first experience, even on fully anonymous and decentralized platforms. Even on 4chan I didn't see stuff like that in the first few seconds.
Sou brasileiro, e vejo muitos brasileiros usando o Nostr. Todos do Blue Sky vão acabar migrando para o Nostr, especialmente com a ajuda do Alexandre de Moraes 🫡.
Yeah it didn't last much after 🤣🤣
Bluesky have the infrastructure, they invested in it years ago to be ready for this. Nostr infrastructure couldnt handle a fraction of that volume, even if it was ready. While I am not a fan of Bluesky you have to give them credit for planning ahead.
Maybe ! 😁😂😎⚡️
Same here 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 let’s follow each other
Tomara mano
Brazil 🇧🇷 here
It's a problem related to our ability to present Nostr to “the people”. I commented on this earlier with another Nostriche here: we're doing badly in organic promotion. Many of us talk about Nostr only within Nostr, many libertarian sub-celebrities in Brazil talk little about Nostr and Bitcoin...
Unfortunately, we're not very effective at presenting Nostr as a morally superior protocol to fiat antisocial networks, once people understand that Nostr isn't just here to prevent censorship, but also to fix the distortions that exist in cyberspace - distortions such as soft porn, disinformational guerrilla warfare, ragebait engagement, indirect funding of frivolous content favorable to bums - and demonetize the misfortunes of others. Paying for satoshis makes it impossible to waste money on bums; who would be crazy enough to give satoshis to useless sub-celebrities who live off scams, lies and pornography? No one. With fiat money, it's worth wasting it on futility, since it's a negative interest rate regime and holding on to that money for too long is a waste.
In Brazil today, the terrain is morally hostile for Nostr, because there is a blatant cultural decay as a result of state policies and anti-culture, so a cyber-ecosystem that is morally superior to the one that is there (the one based on legacy) is combated. In Brazil, it pays more to be a bum than to be honest. The diaspora to BlueSky and Threads is the result of the anti-culture of Brazilians, coupled with the inability of libertarian digital influencers to disseminate Nostr. Regarding the advantageous vagrancy of Brazilians --> it is the same reason why Lula was elected president, if we do not disregard doubts about the electoral process, because they put prostitute sub-celebrities and vagabonds linked to drug trafficking (in the betting market and in the middle of funk carioca for money laundering) to influence young people to vote for the PT, this plus the discourse of “giving picanha to the people” in poor places where work does not pay, here is the result.
Nostr gives citizens the chance to get rid of their addictions, all they have to do is choose the relays and who they follow, they can have their marriage saved, their integrity saved, their soul saved, etc and etc. However, if we bring up these points, we have to deal with people's excuses, such as: “there are no celebrities there”, “I don't have friends there”, or guesses from those who don't know the protocol and still want to badmouth the protocol just to validate the bad choice of staying in fiat antisocial networks.
Of course, libertarian influencers here in Brazil also need to tell the truth about mainstream antisocial networks, that they all live off lies, that they all reduce men to bestiality, destroy families, generate intrigue, generate gossip, make people waste their lives, turn teenage daughters into promiscuous young women inserted in the sex market, the elderly into addicts, couples into adulterers and the meek into beasts, and unfortunately the average Brazilian today loves all of this.
I believe that many people misunderstand the "right" and "left" political spectrum when it comes to Brazil. Our beliefs are complex and deeply influenced by the multicultural nature of our society, resulting in a wide range of perspectives. Over time, however, we’ve seen the narrative of American politics with its restrictive liberal and conservative labels being imported onto our widespread scrolls the spectrum multi-party political system. This has led to a division on social media, where discussions are often toxic and unproductive. It’s ironic that some think they’re driving positive change within these echo chambers, where little innovation or fresh ideas spurs.
The X ban is a black swan that maybe can change something. Many of those who criticize the country for not standing up to a billionaire, opting out of using VPNs, are the same ones who regularly use pirated software, evade taxes, and engage in small acts of corruption in their daily lives—the text book Brazilian way. We are all a little bit of buccaneers, rebels, pirates, small-time criminals with appetite for disobedience since the Portuguese first saw our lands.
On the other hand, those who chose to remain on X despite the ban see themselves as defenders of freedom, the resistance, the only ones with balls to challenge the establishment. They imagine themselves as resisting tyranny, yet may still support a bit of oppression if it means suppressing the opposing side. With the absence of this clash, X now feels unexpectedly calm, peaceful, and even respectful, at least for the moment.
In the middle of this divide lies nostr, attracting a different crowd. Some are the same combatants from X, but there's also a third group, more discerning and curious, who have come here as pioneers, eager to explore and test this new space. Curiosity is a positive trait. The Brazilian nostr community seems more open-minded and interested in what this experiment could become, compared to those who either stayed on X or migrated to BlueSky. With any luck, the curious will become the builders of tomorrow.
The point is that nostr and BlueSky aren’t competitors. For now, it’s refreshing to see nostr attracting a different caliber of people—not just users, but potential builders. I see an incredible future here, maybe for other applications and use cases. BlueSky in the other hand, is just yet another twitter.
Eu acho que não. E se não vierem, tá tudo certo.
This number cannot be right. There were some liberal influencers shilling bluesky and many certainly followed, but probably not even one tenth of that number.
I remember the sad bird when they announced they were closing operations in Brazil.
If that was to happen, I have the feeling most of us would accept the challenge to quickly get together and scale the relay infrastructure overnight.
“Leave this shithole. Join Nostr” 😂
Maybe. I believe that would be the case.
Perhaps 👀👀👀
Welcome to Nostr
Welcome!
If nostr saw an influx of 2M users in one week would the current relays and clients handle the increase in traffic?
There's only one way to find out...
Stress test with bots?
stop promoting these cunts on Nostr
The growth rate of Nostr is good; I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. People need to understand why they need it before using it; without that, it would just be a waste.
Well maybe they have a user now?!
This is just propaganda.
I’m not sure the message going out is Nostr is more than X alternative. The message is Nostr is censorship resistant. And that message only resonates with a small set of people. It’s an important feature to have if you need it but it’s not a daily requirement for most people.
Nostr enables a social app ecosystem that puts people in charge of their feed including how they want to experience content moderation, their social graph, and their app experience.
Don’t like the toxic conversation on X, try Nostr.
Don’t like algorithmic ad driven feeds, build your own on Nostr.
Don’t want to recreate your social graph/ friend community every time you want to try a new app, check out Nostr.
Sick of 4-factor authentication and lost passwords, check out Nostr’s dead simple key pair for account access.
Speak to the pain points people have with existing platforms.
Time to grow time to mature but we will be there
This is nothing compared to X users.
