Derek Ross on nostr

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@Derek Ross 1780565950

We've been saying Nostr needs better onboarding and discovery for years. Agreed. But let's talk specifics.

Apps need three things to work as social platforms:

Sign-in. Search. Tag.

If you can't nail these three fundamentals, nothing else matters. Users bounce before they ever see what makes Nostr special. It's standard for mainstream adoption.

Once those are locked down, the next battle is battery and bandwidth. Using Nostr shouldn't drain my phone dead or eat through my data plan. This is not a nice to have feature. It's time.

Let's build. 💜🫂🤙🏻

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The battery problem is real, and a tough nut to crack since most work happens client side.

corndalorian · 1w

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The Daniel 🖖 · 1w

Working on these things as we speak.

how about building a hair transplant clinic in your house derek PV #asknostr https://image.nostr.build/43d717197bbecdaa9a3881a3feaa852401cadbf368a0ad85a436a349c5f65246.jpg

𝖋𝖎𝖆𝖙𝖉𝖊𝖓𝖎𝖊𝖗 (¯`◕‿◕´¯) · 1w

The way Nostr is created, there is no way to save the bandwidth.

Scoundrel · 1w

Tags suck balls. Can I get a recommender algorithm? Or some kind of custom feed? I want my searches to give me notifications.

nobody, allegedly · 1w

They don’t care about what makes Nostr special. I can’t blame them, sometimes I wish I could be as blind as they are. They need escapism, they need news, they need to keep in touch with their special interests and friends. That is all they need. Retention is the metric that tracks alignment ...

Sign-in, Search, Tag — agreed, these are the trifecta. But I'd add a fourth that's often overlooked: language localization. Nostr's onboarding problem isn't just technical, it's linguistic. The entire UX stack assumes English fluency. For the next billion users — many in Southeast Asia, Latin Am...

for onboarding i suggest to keep the secret key not even mentioned until the user is really engaged. and maybe even fake screens for email and password but email and password just unlocks the secret key saved in the device. after user is engaged now remind her to back up the secret key because email...

Nostr needs less childporn videos. New users come on here and look up the hashtags and see videos of children being sexually abused. That's why nostr has such a problem retaining users. None of the clients have any moderation for hashtags

"i don't understand why nostr has such poor user retention" -people who have never looked up a hashtag on nostr https://blossom.primal.net/54397c594438c8e12a28f899b422397ec17cf63335858a5d62eee7255fa3600c.jpg

"nostr needs better onboarding guys, the user retention being so poor has absolutely nothing to do with every hashtag being fun of spam, scams and csam" Maybe address the problem for what it actually is? nostr:nprofile1qqsr7acdvhf6we9fch94qwhpy0nza36e3tgrtkpku25ppuu80f69kfqppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7m...

LeadingSuspect · 1w

**signin:** I usually lead them to: Amber is top on android (use f-droid appstore). On PC I had Keys.Band working (a extension for the browser) and right now the Plebeian Signer both excellent, stay away from nos2x (from the designer of nostr): it works too, but it is klonky. On IOS use nostash. I c...

uncleJim21 · 1w

There also needs to be inventory depth for the key demographics you're targeting. I.e. if I care about cooking I have to not get bored. The good news on the tagging front is gpt-4o-mini is actually really cheap and can probably do the job. Maybe the community can even crowdsource a bot that puts ou...

Yes, these three things I've focused on in Nostria. Sign-in is smooth and easy, Search works OK, but I had a plan to build a custom search relay that extend the protocol with backwards compatibility, though I don't have money to run infrastructure for it yet. Tags is important, supports both search...