The reason why nostr is not scaling is because normies dont give a shit about nostr. The same way a normie doesnt give a shit what HTTP and HTTPS are. Why should they? They are normies and all they want is a simple application to use on their phone that is better in more ways than it is not from the current one they are using. This is how people moved on from basic AOL type chat rooms in the 1990s to websites like Froendster, and then to MySpace, and then to others like Facebook and Twitter and so on. now there might be an argument to be made that the general social experience using an application may have peaked, but to scale nostr one has to not talk about nostr to the normies and create a profitable social media application that is better than the ones they are using today instead. Imagine if when Twitter started, the founding team would do nothing but scream about how the protocols Twitter is built upon are amazing and what you can do with the protocols, Twitter would have likely failed a year later. But it didn’t fail it. It’s succeeded wildly and it’s because the experience was better for the normies than what they were using before. I really like the thinking of
@utxo the webmaster 🧑💻 and what he is doing with his app. You want scale? Do you really want to fucking scale? Then you’re going to need the normie’s.
