This is how Twitter seems to be breaking up for me:
- Bluesky is where my journo friends & academics go
- Mastodon is where my IT tech guys go (have gone a while ago)
- And Nostr is the most exciting tech of them all, I think, but, sadly, nobody interesting is there but crypto fans... 🤷


Nostr is still early. Lots of Bitcoiners here, that's true (not so much "crypto" fans). It's the current dominating group that's also heavily involved in developing the protocol, but with really everybody using nostr in mind. Every protocol needs a group to start somewhere. We can only grow from there. And we are really welcoming people outside of the Bitcoin space and embrace to see content outside of that. 🫂


Lol we can talk about other stuff, you need only ask


There's loads of interesting people here, but there no algorithms to promote them and discovery largely relies on people sharing content.


For now. This is a feature, not a bug. Having a small, rabidly excited, early adopter group helps us prove new ideas quickly without getting distracted with huge inflows of users.

My guess is that we’ll see the Bitcoin focus start to fade over the next year.


You're making a mistake here

Bitcoin is to crypto what spring water is to manure


nostr is a place for solitary people


This is true of me too. I’d add that I do have friends actively using Threads. They’re the folks who were comfortable using instagram, wanted it to be easy and good, and dragged their feet at leaving twitter.


Bitcoin fans, not "crypto" fans.
"Crypto" is a scam industry.


Tag some interesting people for nostr:npub1ql5rx6pqga5xa9a90edml8hv0w5utxmt5nqz3nr8hruxe9v8hhkqvgjxck, we must have at least one 🥹

nostr:nevent1qqs9ylzd32pre686r6sm8rk3vx8puzutrj7g963yqlvksvtcvd8c8gsppamhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5pzqplgxd5zq3mgd6t62ljmh70wc7afckdkhfxq9rxx0w8cdj2c000vqvzqqqqqqy7rpd2a


I think crypto is pretty fucking stupid.


Also, what I observe, It's possible to bridge content. But nostr needs other non-technical incentives


Just start a non-crypto conversation. You're not entitled to have content be passively served to you. Make something.


Does it change his message?


Nobody interesting? Hundreds of amazing developers are building on nostr as we speak.


Doing some tagging for you to follow
nostr:npub1dcgppk89h9flnffrznvhhj2vt9a0ym23ht5gk07l9j8m6l5k95qsze06js
nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m
nostr:npub1xw7h0efeg5s8gla2uyu55jh4lfrlgppcjemrwkmdc7lgvhkcz3fqpvumsa
nostr:npub1g0587hzzckcncxfm78n0996qe2s58nspy29wf02tqcj5sdzcpj4q6j40hv
nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev
nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc

But easiest is to pick an account you like/trust and see who they're following, your feed will get nicely populated.


Okay how many people have we had complaining about this? Group them all together on their own little relay so they can be happy


Just like wait until the next person bitches about this and follow them. Clique formation 101 duh


Well porn developed the internet and look how that did 😉, bitcoiners are the porn legends for future Nostr users so get on board 🤙


So, you need to bug more of your interesting friends and invite them over here

#Nostr will not build itself


There's a lot of talk about your post.
Added to the https://nostraco.in/hot feed


Fragmentation is the new circle of friends.


Bring them here 😜


Indeed Nostr is bitcoiners happy island for now. Features and diversity of voices will tell if it ever catches some serious network effect. Right know if you do not care much about self-sovereignty nor bitcoin it is not such an attractive place to scroll. Ergo, we need to increase people’s interest in Bitcoin and self-sovereignty so more voices join🤘Happy nostring!


This is how Twitter seems to be breaking up for me:
- Bluesky is where my journo friends & academics go
- Mastodon is where my IT tech guys go (have gone a while ago)
- And Nostr is the most exciting tech of them all, I think, but, sadly, nobody interesting is there but crypto fans... 🤷


Agree to most of this.


You honestly won’t find many “crypto” fans on Nostr, but it would be great to get more tech ppl here.  The pace of development here is mind blowing, some app/client will inevitably go mainstream.

BlueSky can have all the blue checks and journos, that’s a great platform for crying harder.


All the "crypto" people are actually still on Twitter, because pumping their bags requires the largest audience. Just bitcoiners here and some monero weirdos.


That's a good wrap up


Not much more than buttcoin blow hards but nostr is better than all of that and stick yer zaps up yer ass


We need a wizard hat Lazer eye meme maker because everyone needs to get made fun of right now


Yep, sure a lot of 'coiners here, that's true. But I would argue that the ones here are potentially the most sane ones. Not trying to sell you shit you don't need and just kinda talking in their own bubble - thus, easy to navigate around; at least I think so.
Diversity here is not (yet?) very high, but it can only build by inviting people here. It's like in a relationship of sorts - someone has to take a step :)
Discoverability of no-coin stuff is currently not that good - but mind you, Nostr is, out of the three you listed, by far the youngest of them all. Mastodon is actually quite an "old" project (and ActivityPub as the protocol) by now - I think it started 2014-ish?
Give it time, a bit of your attention, and an invite to friends. Help it move out of the crypto bubble, actively. :)

Just my two cents as a guy who came here while having a massive depression due to the state of the "internet" (Reddit and Twitter going shitfuckingexpensive API calls - and especially Twitter locking features and falling into an identity crisis of its own whilst Facebook Threads was a massive promise with little to no delivery; aside from being cucked in the EU) and looking for a new "home". Been here since, seen dozen zapathons (after i missed them, ofc, cuz timezones are bitches x.x) and a lot of meme worthy moments (#beardstr being my favorite - penis butter my second followed by bullshit instead of bullish). The software people write is amazing and the fact that it takes nothing but a few basics to implement is INSANE (minus needing this one random bitcoin-based curve and bech32 encoding... small details but eh).

I see a great future for Nostr - but, it needs legs to walk. ^^


Check out the #GrowNostr tag, a lot of the non bitcoin stuff can be found, liked and followed there...


Hi Marc! Good post


 In my humble opinion (HOEUPL), quite right except, now there's one for the steno community... me! 🗨Welcome, welcome...

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More and more folks will find Nostr..  I must admit, I haven't really searched for subjects.. I think I'll try.. Maybe there's more out there but I just haven't tried to find them. I'll report back.


Admit it, all your friends actually went over to Truth Social. ;p

I think Nostr will continue to be a mostly-Bitcoin-only community until the day when the apps here get too good to ignore anymore. I'm guessing 2025. Then the whole world will be forced to start using it.


All I do here is try to offer non BTC related content options for people even though I love and work with Nostr tech, BTC, etc. It’s clearly an uphill battle here for anything else but those topics but I don’t care. I watched the early Dotcom days unfold, and I’ll watch this one as well. Patience is important.


The Bitcoin obsession I see it as a positive, because without value-for-value there is no future for the internet, and Bitcoin enables V4V.
If you know a better way to foment V4V then that could become a better alternative. V4V is the key, Bitcoin is only a means to an end.