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Rigly 1 month ago
Nostr is so dead, it's hardly worth the effort in development. Sorry. We used Nostr in its heyday to launch the block party, and we still have a core audience here, so we stay. But the network effect isn't here. As a small startup, it doesn't make sense to allocate resources in this way. We have a functional, 24/7 hashrate marketplace. It does not need to be built on Nostr. Nothing needs to be built on Nostr. We've been on here for nearly two years, which is long enough to witness its decline. We were Nostr's first Bitcoin mining block party. We zapped 6M sats in a single day to promote the party. We supported this ecosystem in a variety of ways over the years. It pains us to see the decline in this space. It's not due to lack of effort. But lack of interest speaks volumes. Perhaps if it changes down the road will take another look. Source:
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Logen logen@btcforplebs.com 1 month ago
Nostr is what you make it :) it’s much more than the social layer and it’s definitely worth the effort in developement. It’s probably not worth the development in the social layer. But development overall within the pro protocol is still alive and well. Have you tried BUZZ?
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Bruno SlingshotVPN 1 month ago
Agreed. As I said many times - do Noster as a forum like stack overflow and reddit. Well integrated with email. We are slow burning cool people. Not fireworks hot air balloon types. This twiter thing is just irritating and leads nowhere.
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¡M0053! moose@jmoose.rocks 1 month ago
For me, I just disagree with the premise, but I think that's because I don't want nostr to be something that someone else may want it to be. The network effect for mass social media of this type is already owned by a bunch of apps. And Nostr is more than just a Twitter clone. It's a protocol that you can use to transmit data through relays. And that has use cases that Twitter can't even touch. I am glad that it's just my eccentric little group of relatively anonymous online friends and not an algorithm feeding me the same garbage every day. I think (after scolding, Marty Bent for staying on the X platform) Matt Odell ended up re-establishing his presence on X claiming it was in part because Nostr had failed. This actually made me laugh, but I understand it's missing something that he wants or had on Twitter. It's not doing what his vision for the protocol should do. And to be honest, I don't think that matters. At least for now, Nostr is less like an addictive influencer infested platform than it is something like ham radio, which is an esoteric geeky wasteland to a certain extent, but it's still important, and so is this protocol.
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