I agree with this, and lots of nostr clients are ugly ass construction sites.

But there’s a bunch of clients that are really good now. Nearly indistinguishable from X/Twitter.

Yet no uptick in growth.

The best social media app in the world without interesting conversations to follow or a strong network effect of people isn’t going to get adoption up.

People always need to come first.

I’m not sure about pioneers and villagers… just drawing on insight from jobs to be done theory by Clayton Christensen

People need to have a problem before they have enough awareness to begin searching the market for alternatives and substitutes.

I agree there’s a lot to be built, but simply building stuff nobody is looking for isn’t going to create demand.

If there’s a bunch of people who get censored, or lose access to an api they built a business on, or some other side effect of centralization, it’s better to build features for that group of people that currently in need and searching for alternatives.

People didn’t join nostr in the early days because primal was feature rich and ready with a good UX. They joined because twitter failed them and they were willing to deal with rough edges if it meant they wouldn’t get burned again.

There’s a million things you could theoretically build, so why not build the things people might be looking for right here and now?

I actually think the opposite is better. You're basically saying if you build it they will come.

I think if they come, we will have a better idea of what needs to be built.

Let demand shape supply.

dude stop trying to poke holes in my half-baked ideas

to be clear, i think its only "dead" if nobody uses it.

but... i would consider anything that has organic growth to be "alive".

like nobody has to go around and http/smtp-pill people anymore. those networks have network effects and grow and sustain themselves on their own.

maybe we're just incubating?! it still feels early, unpolished, and without any sort of product market fit.

People thought they understood numbers before too. Then people discovered concept of zero which introduced negative numbers…

I don’t think we can ever say for certain that there is nothing left to discover in any domain.

Doesn’t mean what we know today isn’t useful.

Nostr was never alive to begin with… still fun tho!

Einstein's understanding of physics is closer to truth than Newton's. Newton's is closer than Aristotle's.

I mean it in the sense that we get closer and closer but never convinced we have it.

haha, not even. think there are universal truths, we just can't know for sure what they are. we can only get closer.

There is no truth