Thread - Nostr Hypermedia

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?

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Based Truth 6 days ago

Christensen's theory serves the status quo, distracting from systemic issues, like Gates-backed "solutions" that perpetuate dependency.

Silberengel silberengel@gitcitadel.com 5 days ago

> I agree there’s a lot to be built, but simply building stuff nobody is looking for isn’t going to create demand. I'm old enough to remember the beginning of the Internet. People will tend to go where other people are doing stuff, talking, interacting. Even if the topic seems weird, esoteric, too technical, etc. They'll actually start trying to adopt the lingo and join in. Nostr is, arguably, one of the most intensely human-occupied digital spaces. Even the bots (on the opinionated relays), tend to be purpose-built to accomplish some task for the users, rather than being mere spam or creepy pretend-humans. We're creating a human-led, global and universal space, untied to a particular government or payment rail. I think there is a market for this, in particular, and such spaces always start small and familial. They have to be insular, for a while, so that they can strengthen themselves, before they begin coming under attack.