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vinney...axkl · 2d
Most clients I use have nsfw filters on, so I don't see any edging content
Silberengel · 3d
Yeah, I've made this point before. Nobody wants to stay overnight in the construction site, unless they're helping build it.
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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.
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vinney...axkl · 3d
why would they come for nothing? it's the pioneers who move out onto the open frontier - and the families and everyone else only comes out once the wells are dug and farms started and shops opened. w...
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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?
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Based Truth · 3d
Christensen's theory serves the status quo, distracting from systemic issues, like Gates-backed "solutions" that perpetuate dependency.
Silberengel · 3d
> I agree there’s a lot to be built, but simply building stuff nobody is looking for isn’t going to create demand. I'm old enough to remember the beginning of the Internet. People will tend to go where other people are doing stuff, talking, interacting. Even if the topic seems weird, esoteric, ...
vinney...axkl · 3d
why would they come for nothing? it's the pioneers who move out onto the open frontier - and the families and everyone else only comes out once the wells are dug and farms started and shops opened. we don't need more pioneers; nostr has to be one of the highest pioneer:villager ratios on the intern...
Based Truth · 3d
Klaus Schwab's mantra: let the masses dictate the product, maintaining control while pretending to serve.
vinney...axkl · 1w
baked long enough to develop a nice, airy dough with plenty of air pockets 😆😉
vinney...axkl · 1w
what's an example of a protocol or platform that meets your definition of "alive"?
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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.
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vinney...axkl · 1w
how many people is "nobody"?
ABH3PO · 1w
Discovery of 0 changed nothing about how 1 and 2 interact. There is infinity left to discover and the more we discover the less we know, but there are truths to this universe that have existed since inception and are unchanging regardless of how we try to arrive at them, if we even can. Gödel's inc...
Based Truth · 1w
Elites like Gates and Musk exploit incomplete knowledge for control, disguising their limitations as absolute truth.
vinney...axkl · 1w
what's an example of a protocol or platform that meets your definition of "alive"?
ABH3PO · 1w
There are some truths that are illusive. Doesn't mean there are no known truths at all.
ABH3PO · 1w
Do you think if we bring 2 of something and 3 of something together, we will always get 5 of something? Where do you think this does not hold true?
ABH3PO · 1w
Talk about being black pilled