The onboarding is what we need to do better with I think, more resources and better onboarding experience.  

 Nah, it’s not possible is all. 

 What's not possible? Onboarding people?  

 There’s nothing to onboard them to. No interesting content. 

 Relatively speaking. 

 I think there is, but I agree to an extent.  

 Bulk of people join either for people or for content. We can write off 1, because we know their people are not here. So we’re left with 2: content. If it’s lacking, they leave. And they are leaving. 

Not rocket science. 🧪 

 All good points. So we need content creators but they do not have insensitive to come here because there are no people to share it with. Catch 22 problem 🐶🐾🤔 

 Exactly 

 Agreed, and content creators need to be able to have benefit here first 

 Yes, but hard to do when some random and irrelevant projects consume funds to just implement duplicate something, while basic needs are left to fend for themselves 🐶🐾🫡 

 Decentralization isn't very good thing if a common goal is there.🤔 A lot is about the money. Nostr brings zaps, which is great thing, but again catch 22.
Maybe the image needs to change, or at least its advertisement, to bring in more paying plebs and more influencers doing it for money.
For most Nostriches it's a tough thought to digest - people are mostly sheep and will pay to follow their stars, but not think and move by themselves, and it's ok to share content and work for a lot of money. 

 Yeah it’s bad positioning imo.  Need to try different angles. 

 Can we make better incentives? 

As this is kind of a catch 22 problem, that:
Content creators are not coming because people are not here. People are not coming because creators are not coming.

We might need an incentive for a certain group of people, who will be the incentive to the next group of people.

It does not matter to have bad onboarding if they have no reason to come or stay.
 

 This is a very interesting thread. I agree with a lot of points here all over the place across bits and pieces of replies which I won't collage together and repeat lol:)

It is promising that these glaringly obvious points are being faced with more seriousness. I think in the past they've often been brushed aside with 'nostr success is inevitable' type posturing.  

 This might help 😉 : https://m.primal.net/HnUB.mp4   

 We have plenty of ads, they do not help the retention 🐶🐾🤣 

 Yea retention is a tough one
 

 I agree, hopefully it's something we can improve enough on till we hit critical mass and network effects kick in but as of now it feels like  we gotta ride it out. 

 ya, this is it.  

 Could someone write a set of browser plugins which would add a 'share to nostr' button to twitter etc. Popular twitter feeds could then selectively post their content to nostr and be incentivised by zaps. 

Automatically tagging these posts with a filterable tag would enable people to either block them (I would) or deliberately follow the tag (people onboarding from centralised social media, looking for the type of content they are used to).