If we can solve the ability to onboard entire creator communities with little friction, Nostr will experience growth like never before. We might have some tools for this now, but none of them work well enough for your average person to use. These apps and services don't need to be *better* than their legacy alternatives, they just need to function as well as what Nostr is attempting to replace. Once apps work, and actually work well, the *better* part of the equation writes itself with a portable digital social identity. Until then, we're just setting people up for failure again and again.
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I’m a creator, high on my list are:
1. Ability to schedule posts (including image uploads)
2. easier way to collect metrics like follower count, engagement, post views.
3. Tools for media editing
you do it through micro-communities
View quoted note →'just' function as well as apps funded with millions if not billions is no easy feat though
Sounds like Linux gradual adoption over the years … still… I’d much prefer open source regardless. What about some kind of development platform running off lightning snd sats? I feel a nostr YouTube equivalent would be a start with zero ads and 100% education/helpful content.
It's not... And that's where we are at now.
portable digital social ID
Bingo. The biggest hurdle isn’t convincing people why they should use Nostr—it’s making sure they can use it without friction. Most people don’t care about decentralization, censorship resistance, or sovereignty; they just want things to work.
Right now, onboarding is a nightmare for the average user. Private keys? Relays? Wallet integration? It’s all second nature to the tech-savvy, but a brick wall for normies. The moment they hit friction, they bounce right back to the platforms they know.
The game-changer isn’t building something better—it’s building something equivalent but sovereign. The second it feels as seamless as its legacy counterparts, the advantages of self-ownership will do the selling. Until then, we’re just preaching to the choir.
Creator communities 👀
"...they just need to function as well as what Nostr is attempting to replace..."
I'm with this. Though I don't think we're setting people for failure.
I have failed myself, a lot, when it comes to using what few clients & apps I have the time & brain to use; but I feel this is a journey, an undertaking that many in this community have been very helpful with.
There has been times I've been the one to pause the "receiving of the help" because I need to catch up, or my non-Nostr life has decided to get in the way.
I am in agreement that user-friendliness does need to be a priority. If you are in your late 30s now, you need to think of how would your 80+ grandma/grandpa use this, why, & with how much ease.
Why?
Because the old ones still have a lot good sh*t to offer that many young'uns have no idea of its yuuuuge value.
I'm not saying let's cater to octogenarians, but when solving a problem from the perspective of your least capable participant, you solve it for everybody!!!!
I feel like I may be contradicting myself. I think I should, we all have yin & yang in us.
But while the user-friendliness of Nostr remains "questionable", we may need to focus on our community and help each other out to learn to use it with its current hurdles, as this creates new neurological connections. Challenge is good for our brains, while the work is done to smooth as many kinks to onboard EVERYONE. As in... No vulnerable member of our human specie left behind. Solving all the problems is a paradox, cuz new problems and challenges will always show up.
Agree…one barrier I’ve noticed is some sort of cultural resistance to anything other than Bitcoins/Sats which makes it a bit discouraging to help build the necessary infra knowing it’ll be poorly received.
