Oddbean new post about login | logout There's lots of non-blue checkers who continue to use twitter, even unmonetised too. Cos their interest(s) are there. There are plenty of niche and not so niche clusters of subgenres and activity around interests to be found on twitter which has little or no representation here. But yeah also people don't want to start over. Like larger accounts who have a follower count larger than the entire network here. And what they post about may also not even have an audience on nostr in any significant amount to feel like a community or otherwise meaningful. Not that they wouldn't be welcomed..but more like they would feel like they're not getting any engagement on the topics they care about.
I mean just grabbing an example from your bio. You're not really gonna find much pro-wrestlimg content or lively discussions here. But you will find that aplenty on twitter. You'll even get specific Japanese pro wrestling enthusiasts, conversations and content there. But barely exists here (afaik)
If the only thing you know is bitcointwitter, nostr is fine, you have all the slogans and "memes" here. Maybe even Meshtastic, Christian community too. Beyond that you'll struggle to find engagement really..... For now. Who knows
Christian community is surprisingly thin, here. Hope it gets better with communities.
Perhaps so, but it is still relatively active compared to any other subculture / circles.
Not saying much.
100%. Sports is a biggie. I run a college hoops message board for my alma mater and most news and information breaks there.
Maybe one day nostr will have a proper full feature forum client 🤞
The optional Reddit-like Nostr features are, in my view, an important goal. Reddit used to be a free speech platform. It grew that way. Many complain about Reddit moderation and have complained about it becoming more censorship prone. So there is a potential userbase for a Reddit-like Nostr-based platform.
yeah it annoys me when disingenuous bitcoiners say everyone should be 'nostr only', like it's some kind of moral decree. most people have connections and communities elsewhere which provide value to their lives. these don't need to be sacrificed to grow something new.
It's also disingenuous when people say it's because there's no algo. They are just evidencing that they have no interests outside of bitcointwitter chatroom -style posts. Lots of interest aren't here, and so they can't be found. Not all of us are bitcointwitter-only lol:)
Being Nostr-only is also a terrible strategy to promote Nostr. You are then only posting to people who already know Nostr (because they are on Nostr). It's a bad idea, it's limiting. Also, Nostr isn't perfect. It's good to explore different decentralized and censorship-resistant options which may already exist or exist in the future. There isn't one *specific* platform, or protocol, or really one specific anything that is inherently better. What is inherently better is always something which, if it were forgotten, could be built again. So it's decentralization and censorship resistance, not Nostr specifically.