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Benking · 10h
What a stunning photo!
Josh · 10h
Honestly the only thing I see pushing the social side is governments. Age checks, ID to log in, the under 16 bans. Every one of those makes holding your own key look a bit less weird. I we were to advertise it be to that demographic.
Sergio profile picture
Its going to be up to clients for nostr to advertise in an effort to onboard ppl. But then there has to be a reward/return for that effort.
Legacy platforms use ads to make money and monetized your attention.
Are nostr clients going to copy that?
Id like to think you could do it for bitcoin related products but ppl dont care about bitcoin, (yet?).
So, how can you sell nostr to the public to make it attractive enough for them to move over here?
You would need another wave of censorship, a new pandemic, a new propaganda narrative to fight, anything that the public would be outraged about. And even then they might just like to complain and say in their little guided cages.
Rant over.
#rant
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beejay · 11h
Keep 'em there
Josh · 10h
Fair point about advertising, but that's the problem in a nutshell. From the outside Nostr looks exactly like the normal web. Same feeds, same likes, same arguments. Why would anyone move for a copy. The job isn't to advertise that copy, it's to build things that only work because the key is yours a...
Sergio profile picture
One of nostrs main problems to get end users is its decentralized nature. There ia no central agency that can hold a meeting to decide on expenses allocated to marketing campaigns.
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TKay ⚡ · 11h
I always wondered this. Not sure if it would work. But can crowdfunded ads work? Someone creates an account, and every zap they get gets funneled into different ad systems.
memestr ⚡️ · 21h
Im cash broke