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I can't stress enough how many people tell me that no social media app does what they want to do.

X only works for famous people. Instagram only works for picture-perfect people. Linked-in is a giant circle jerk. Slack is not productive. Discord is a dumpsterfire. NextDoor is barely a glorified classified. Finding good communities on Reddit is harder than finding a good show on Netflix. Facebook only appeals to nostalgia. TikTok is a mindless stream of the same stuff over and over again. WhatsApp groups annoy users more than help. Etc.

Which is really interesting after the billions of dollars these companies have put into developing them. It's almost as if their poorly designed incentive structure led these teams to fully ignore the user.

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idagli⚡₿⚡ · 102w

Actually, we are the same here as we are in real life. There is no difference, everyone meets their audience.

nostrich · 102w

There's this annoying factor called 'Stickiness' that skews their decision-making. They have to prioritise retaining users because that's what makes them valuable. Any feature that increases stickiness will take priority over everything else. In Nostr, Amethyst can set a direction for itself that ...

They are doing their jobs quite well for the intended users. You just need to adjust your focus to who the users are. Features - Addicting Consumers - Harvesting Data of Consumers to Sell - Selling Propaganda Space and Data to Users. People think they are the target user. In many cases they are me...

Daniel Wigton · 102w

Irc has the most enduring usefulness to me. It has declined with advent of slack and discord as communities move to those platforms. But the Slack clones don't provide the same easy movement between communities that makes irc useful.

How many Amethyst users asked for their drafts to be stored on relays?

frphank · 102w

They left some space for me to fill with my solution for which I am eternally grateful.

[ARCHIVED] Jay · 102w

#NostrFixesThis

What do they want it to do then?

It's Moro! · 102w

nostr is the grass that will take back the landscape after the VCs are bankrupt and the buildings are empty. #infinitegame

VelvetBlue_art · 102w

I sincerely appreciate not getting ads shoved in my face here.

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KalonAxiarch · 102w

This is why I'm extremely bullish on #nostr, I made this short video to get more normies to join us, feel free to share 😉 : https://m.primal.net/HnUB.mp4

CitizenPleb · 102w

I don’t see Zuck complaining.

Those are built from the top, #nostr is more like a bottom-up solution 💜

Christian · 102w

"Linked-in is a giant circle jerk" 🤣

I think of the ones you mentioned, Discord is what works best for everybody, because every server is a closed community and everybody feels like friends. Too bad Discord is a private platform and servers that do not follow the ToS get frequently nuked.

hunter wells · 102w

it’s actually impressive the amount of time/money wasted

Just realized all of those platforms suck because people go on them to sell a version of themselves or actual goods and services, warps authenticity. I still remember 90s html chat rooms where everyone was just chatting anonymously about nonsense, not selling anything, and it was fun— maybe it was...

And yet, billions of people still use them multiple times a day. Actions speak louder than words. I completely agree with the fact that most people are unhappy with the options but they are somehow serving a purpose or solving a problem, even if their user's can't articulate what that might be.

A university built a new wing. The didnt build sidewalks. They waited to see where the paths appeared, and paved those. Selah

fiatjaf · 102w

No one had complaints about Orkut.

Nothing is perfect. It’s impossible to create a product or service that everyone will love. The consumer needs to choose what works best for them. The social media companies mentioned target certain demographics and offer different types of online experiences. The same thing will be true for Nostr...

LinkedIn comment is so on point. Corporate ‘spank bank’ meets Shreks ‘pick me pick me’ bouncing donkey. I’m still a part of the problem. The notional Rolodex has me hanging on for a bit but I think I am going to pull the plug soon and Cortez upon new shores that I am not the product.

Daniel Batten · 101w

They are all doing exactly what they were designed to do: incentive the user to return to the app as often as possible, and spend as much time there as possible.