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Peter McCormack

@petermccormack 1676946260

Nostr is very very cool…but…we’re a long way from normies wanting an unfiltered, decentralised social network which doesn’t have all their favourite famous peeps.

Bitcoiners will naturally have a love for Nostr because it fits with their worldview and understanding.

Like educating the benefits of Bitcoin, Nostr will have the same challenges. Zaps, nPubs etc… won’t mean much to most people.

For now it’s a super cool Bitcoin chat room.

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Brian Lockhart · 172w

Normies have no idea what they want, and will wait to be told what that is by famous peeps. The longer this place flourishes without them, the better.

King of Bedford is here. What more could they want?

cyphnker · 172w

just let them join nostr when 200K

Deleted Account · 172w

Kristaps K. · 172w

Currently trying to convince normies getting into Facebook jail to try Nostr.

Willy Woo · 172w

Give it 5 years for the apps and revenue streams to improve. The top podcasters like Rogan talk about control over content and not being censored all the time.

🌷Wilhelmus à Mouw🌷 · 172w

Never change, Pete

gladstein · 172w

Gotta start somewhere… :)

BitcoinEagle.dev · 172w

It's not unfiltered. It is client filtered under user's control. That's a big difference.

thinkgreen147ce3cb68e · 172w

I wouldn’t mind if it stays this way. This is awesome!

Rich Nost · 172w

It is however much easier to get into than Bitcoin. Probably equally as hard to understand the importance of though.

nopara73 · 172w

If it's successful, Nostr will be the most filtered social media platform ever and it is a good thing. It seems people think the removal of all the rules from social media is the goal, but as anyone who ever tried, like Elon and the Darknet Markets discovered, a game without rules is a shitty game. ...

border.community · 172w

Normies thought it was a pandemic of the unvaccinated

The normies are not going to push the world forward, progress is made one step at a time. If it were to happen, that we would get an unfiltered, decentralized social network, what would the steps look like to get there? My guess is it would look a lot like this.

BTCMundi · 172w

Yeah. I don’t know a single normie who have heard of Nostr.

BaronBurdock · 172w

It'll take time, but it will happen. When someone gets on Nostr who is outside the bitcoin space but still produces good content, I might go out of my way to give them engagement. Jumping to a new form of social media has a cost, they should be rewarded for moving

Quote: "For now it’s a super cool Bitcoin chat room..." 💯 Massive potential for many many things no doubt! 💜🧡⚡💪 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enYdAxVcNZA

Rafa ⚡🌿🌴𓆏 · 172w

Peter this should've been posted here. Instead of publishing lil digs/trash opinions, how about you help more ppl onboard. "I'm going to nostrica" > followed by this take is weak AF. If you ain't about it, be about it. note167tjwkymsmgnx3qtr4t8k9ns6npjhyw3r7t4ut8anw0cp6rau86q22tcvz https://i...

Alex Jones · 172w

If we only did normie things we'd still be locked in in a cage with needles sticking out of our eyeballs and muzzles locked over our mouths. https://void.cat/d/9M1VnPbbdvbWzUiPBneboV.webp

Manstack · 172w

Libertarian-minded Bitcoiners need to learn to communicate in terms that appeal to the sensibilities of other groups. This is something I’m trying to work on.

Bowtied Peasant · 172w

Get someone like Jordan Peterson, Alex Jones or Joe Rogan to try it, then it will explode.

Melvin Carvalho · 172w

You've only seen a fraction of what #nostr can do ;)

Schlaus Kwab · 172w

#[2] is consumed mostly by paranoid goldbug boomers and they're already here. Also what I'm seeing is that the frontends are doing a pretty good job of hiding the complicated stuff.

DecrimNat · 172w

I'd rather be a big fish in a pond full of Bitcoiners anywaze

zender 🟨⬛ bitcoinomad · 172w

agreed with this one..unless we see more censorship on twitter or social media people won't care about nostr.

Bitcoin · 172w

Hypno Kitty · 172w

Welcome to Nostr, Peter! Took you long enough :)

Vampire · 171w

I would not get too hung up on when normies are going to show up. Nostr is the first platform I can see truly competing with Twitter or Facebook. It may take a couple of years but it's got the right technology sitting under it. The way I see it it may not even really need to compete, those other pla...

mrclownworld · 171w

But Peter - how many different communities have concluded that they needed to build their own platform, and look who actually did it in a way that it will work for everyone

Adam Ritter | rbr.bio · 171w

It’s not that long way as you may think. Programming against Nostr is 100x easier than against Bitcoin, so the pace of innovation will stay crazy. Zaps are totally optional. Also even if it’s ,,just’’ for Bitcoiners, we’re still talking about tens of millions of people.

nostrich · 171w

The more social networks Bitcoin and bitcoiners interface with, the deeper the penetration and reach. So please do not disengage from Twitter. That said, Bitcoin needs a public dialog which can not be censored. The social layer of Bitcoin can be attacked, if communication channels can be attacked.

StStolz · 171w

Zaps can be key

Better/Father · 171w

I’ve been censored so long I started censoring myself. It’ll take a while before I get my voice back. I suppose they got what they wanted until now. I legitimately had fears my HR department was viewing my social media accounts and out of concerns didn’t say anything for the last 5 years. ...

Until more of the well known people join nostr, here’s a tool I built that allows you to follow people’s twitter profiles from nostr: https://nostr-twit.glitch.me/

StoneXia@石头 · 171w

TheAndy · 171w

You can do your part of educating people and take their fear of everything related to decentralisation and cryptography. For example, start using your influence on centralises YouTube to drive your viewers to decentralises video platforms such as Odysee and from Twitter to Nostr. If not, you're jus...

DallaireBitcoin · 169w

Even if it doesn't go mainstream as Twitter. Nostr could do very well just with #Bitcoin community. Also, we are early. Clients app still need improvements. 🤔