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Biggest complaints:
- Bitcoin echo chamber / not enough variety of content
- Difficult to use (my guess is these people have only tried it once 8 months ago lol..)
- Feeds not busy enough
- Toxic to web 3

My thoughts:

I bet we can solve a lot of these complaints just by asking people to select some topics to follow in onboarding and doing away with global entirely, or make it an optional thing. It seems global is responsible for turning people off because they see a bunch of spam / too much bitcoin content and or some other crap.

Topics solves some of this - they will see more focused content.


Better navigation UX can help - like browsing hashtags (see primal).


The network effects thing IS a challenge. Have to have users to create content and have to have content to attract users. Lists could help here. Even something as suggesting a list of RSS feeds that post on Tech news for example would be helpful. We already have RSS feeds for all sorts of stuff but they are difficult to surface.

Engaging with non-bitcoin content can help too (if you find it interesting, probably don’t want to force it).

Other than that I am not sure how to get more non-bitcoin users here other than creating a “safe space” for them where they don’t see that type of content at all. Whether that’s a bitcoin-free relay or a client that specifically mutes bitcoin terms via a pre-defined (user can still modify) mute list, or something else I can’t think of atm.
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nobody · 137w
I’m beginning to think a lot of people’s issue with social media is people. Watching culture evolve here is reinforcing that view.
sommerfeld · 137w
Finally some sanity instead of outright dismissal and cope. You are spot on. Still hate hashtags as a solution.
₿TC Fiend · 137w
Nostr feels a bit like a High School clique which turns me away for stretches. The culture feels kinda forced and lame at times as well. I know we're still super early but that's just my honest opinion.
Thoth · 137w
I will say the variety of content is the biggest issue. A lot of content is bitcoin centered which is fine, but the main reason that content doesn't exist is because said people aren't generating that content. Best thing would be to either mirror your content from X or IG to have that variety.
Ocean · 137w
Whether or not global is a default on/off I think it is critical for freedom of speech and emergencies that global can always be enabled.
hiddenfeather · 137w
Being new to Nostr, I missed the heavy bitcoiner stuff or whatever it was. I just see a ton of potential for the protocol. However, talking to people about using Nostr, I get a lot of, "LOL, no." The FOSS crowd should be all over it, but they just dismiss it immediately. Community creation could fix...
AJ Nobody ⚡🏴 · 137w
Web3: Why would we embrace greater centralization risk, VC control, and a propensity to shitcoin? This. Is. Nostr. (Not wEb3.)
someone · 137w
Clients should show the global and some beautiful hashtags like #art or #photography or #nature and refine from there by gradually following the follow list and dropping the global depending on the size of the follow list.
ErDuende · 137w
Filtering feeds by language could help a lot for people onboarding.
Schrödinger’s Catbox · 137w
I also find the content bitcoin-heavy. But that's what the people who have put in the effort want to talk about, so be it. There's plenty of time and opportunity to shape this environment to everyone's liking.
Paul · 137w
I just started with nostr and this note of yours sums up my experience so far.. but then there's plenty of interesting discussion in the replies. So.. maybe content is ok afterall. I don't have a problem with the difficult onboarding. I wonder if it selects for a more interesting user base? TBD ...
bblfish · 137w
Speaking as someone who just came to the platform, I could not tell initially if there were a lot of people here or just very few. I did not want to follow all the people that were suggested to me in part because they all seemed overly bitcoin related. (I quite like Lightning btw, so one can slowly ...
An Alien's Angst · 137w
They don't have to be non-Bitcoin users. It is probably best that they are Bitcoiners (or can be quickly converted); the sorting and economy building is a good thing. But, it is possible to be a Bitcoiner that is not so obsessed with the thing that one talks about it 24/7 as if it is the single mo...
An Alien's Angst · 137w
I don't really want to see the mainstream topics and culture imported over here, so I'm against the safe space idea. It's ok if the userbase is different from other platforms. It doesn't meet any goals if the userbase is just fanatical Bitcoiners.