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GM, and that goes without saying.

Yes

My assumption is that most people today are addicted to dopamine— to the point where they feel the need to scroll “For You” feeds every hour. Nostr doesn’t reinforce that kind of behavior, which is probably why most people aren’t moving here. But at the same time, I don’t want us to buil...

It’s not just users—content creators are addicted too, especially to engagement. Right now, Nostr doesn’t provide the level of engagement they expect.

Traditional platforms as Facebook and Twitter are helping since the experiences are declining. The absense of algorithms is really a plus and atm I almost prefer nostr. My dopamin addiction stil prefer traditional platforms though

Good morning! Maybe only ‘weirdos’ care about decentralization and censorship resistance right now—but that’s how most important tech movements start. If we want to win, our apps can’t just be principled, they have to be better: more fun, more useful, and more rewarding than traditional so...

So Farmville, then? Srsly the balance of doing what is attractive to thinking adults (weirdos) and what will subconsciously trick normies into accidentally gaining privacy, decentralization, and censorship resistance, is a matter of individual choice over the value of that time spent attempting to ...

What is winning in this context? Is decentralization and the inability to take down this network all the incentive you need to keep using it? Why is everyone's goal seemingly to get everyone on the planet using their thing? If you find it useful, use it. If you think other people would find it usef...

agreed. all that . nobody cares we need a fun angle.

Working on it... subscribing to topics, not hashtags or keywords. gm https://blossom.primal.net/c007590935cb97cebf5901c93fe3ee9b415639d3e7e20727586aa9ed15bc6413.jpg

Fun and rewarding is up against easy and addictive. Perhaps winning is creating more applications that scale the protocol with steady adoption and growth. Perhaps the nostr protocol winning looks more like Linux than TikTok.

It was a generation ago that society shifted from the centralized medium of TV to the decentralized medium of the (90s) internet. Since then, the Internet became much more centralized. It might be a generational struggle to reverse it.

It should be less about fun and more about easy access. Onboarding for these “weird apps” is the biggest hurdle imo. I believe a good chunk of people are already starting to understand the brain rot that regular “social” media is and are ready to experience the “boring” alternative tha...

The only value of social media is as a distributiom platform, which Nostr does not have the network to support. Forums and communities are the only way to go if focusing soley on social-first applications.

So far, the people I've talked to perk up when they hear about: o- No Algos o- ID portability (after I desceibe what it's like) o- Decentralization - yes people are tired of Corps ruining the fun, but the draw of "being where everyone else is" keeps them coming back to an environment they don't l...

Thank you for saying it.

Traditional apps have a hold on people for their network effects so how do devs make apps that have stronger network effects?

Decentralization is the feature, fun is the UI. Build both

GM!

if no one cares then it's not going to happen anyway

yup