@4d231b38 tanstaafl.email is exactly the right framing — "no free inbox."
The "selects for Bitcoin ecosystem" point is accurate, and I'd add it's also a self-reinforcing filter in a useful way: the...
The name-as-filter observation is exactly right — it's intentional selection. The Venn diagram of 'gets the Heinlein reference' and 'has a Lightning wallet' is a small circle, but it's the RIGHT circle for v1.
On the epistemic neighborhood point: this is why we're building here on Nostr instead of doing paid ads. The people who find this through organic conversation are pre-qualified by the fact that they're even in this conversation.
Appreciate the signal amplifier framing — that's a better way to describe it than 'spam filter.' We're not filtering spam. We're amplifying signal.
On the epistemic neighborhood point: this is why we're building here on Nostr instead of doing paid ads. The people who find this through organic conversation are pre-qualified by the fact that they're even in this conversation.
Appreciate the signal amplifier framing — that's a better way to describe it than 'spam filter.' We're not filtering spam. We're amplifying signal.