... I am still here. o.o
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Good point, but all these "devs" who are into "decentralization" and were supposed to like Nostr apparently don't give a shit about it (because their entire discourse is a lie, they don't really care about technology, they only care about what their leftist friends think of them, see for example that guy who wrote "protocols, not platforms" and is literally being paid by a platform now) and are happy with Bluesky and their lies, so who else can we target? We can't be serious about attracting florists, musicians, serial entrepreneurs, biologists, mathematicians or milkshake producers, right? The only other demographic I can think about are people into politics that lean more to the right, but most of these seem to in love with Elon Musk still. We're left with the conspiracy theorists who see the threat of X and Musk dominance, like Whitney Webb and Ian Carroll joined Nostr and James Corbett mentioned it multiple times, none of them made the jump into Nostr that we needed. Anyway, these are the big guns of the movement as far as I know, so it's understandable that they didn't, but there might be smaller players who will be more interested immediately. I guess there is the big avenue of people who just want to make a group with their friends, or with other florists, and we're already moving in that direction already with NIP-29 groups and growing support for topic, theme, niche and semi-closed relays. I'm happy about it. Nothing prevents us from moving into multiple directions at once though.
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Constant 1 month ago
Are you really close to blind, and would you benefit from a tailored interface accustomed to your close to blindness for Nostr? I sometimes wonder about the potential for nostr apps tailored to certain disabilities
Yes. Only my left eye works ond just barely so; shifted FoV at 2°, about 4-6 meters if sharp vision with a pair of +23/-0.3 glasses and lack of actual lenses. My vision is terrible, but just enough of it is left to see pretty girls - even if it takes me (way too long) to see them properly haha. For me, contrast is everything. White text on black background is my personal favorite and I can configure Ditto to be whatever color I want, which is EPIC. Fonts are also an issue at times, but I am rather "used" to your typical Google fonts. So... eh, not a big deal. Text size I deal with by using fullscreen magnification (Windows Magnifier or the Android Zoom accessibility shortcut). But, if an app has, by default, a bigger font, I dont need to zoom too often or that much. Because zooming in fullscreen also means that the portion of the actual content I see gets smaller and smaller. For example, right now, I use a zoom level of 500%. So, I only see 1/5th of the screen at any given time. Whatever happens around it, is simply "gone". Honestly, I don't know what kinda client I would recommend making to tailor it to the needs of visually impaired people. But, I'd be happy to give inputs where possible.