How about we collectively figure out what turns off the IT crowd when they hear about Nostr, so that we could create a resource that addresses these concerns properly?
Here is how we could do it.
There is a public Google Sheet (link at the end).
Anyone can go to HN, PH, Reddit etc, find mentions of Nostr, find meaningful criticism/concerns expressed, "parse" them, and add a row to the table - one per comment/reply/note. And don't forget to leave your npub in each row.
I will pay 500 sats per row to the npubs of contributors, if anyone wants to join me and sponsor this - just reply to this note.
Lmk if you have a better idea of how to do this.
#grownostr
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QnCfuFytLPLMF03EVKjnHugQe4SHZtcBUk1doJ4YTis/edit?usp=sharing
Great! I'll contribute
Nice! I guess I will create zap prisms with contributor npubs so that you could zap them easily
Google Docs? Isn't there a better tool for this?
- OpenOfffice
- CodiMD
Or build our own with Nostr ^_^
"Our own" sounds amazing, but we can't wait until someone ships it 😉
Other centralized tables that allow for collaboration don't seem to be much better than google
Too much crypto bitcoin talk has always been the #1 issue reported
That's coming from people who tried it, I am more interested in those who hear about nostr as a tech and have doubts whether it's worth trying
Why does that matter. How will you convince them to try it? They have to try it to make an assessment, no?
Someone looking at nostr as Twitter alternative has to check out the content etc and doesn't care about internals.
Some IT person looking at nostr as a new tech cares about internals much more than short note topics. IMO
Yeah but don’t they test it in the process? I imagine the people diving straight into GitHub and forming their conclusions on that is a small number compared to all the other hanging fruit we can address.
Anyway, curious what technical issues they point out. Let’s see.
I think the biggest criticism is that it suffers from "big relay" issue, since not all relays mirror content
Not sure if it's the biggest, but yes I have seen it mentioned
Allergic to google docs. But I'll post here
@Karnage started filling the table, thank you!
I was thinking we'd do a row per reply - this would help find the source complaint to dive deeper, and also pay the bounty properly. You've covered the whole thread in a single row, that's amazing, but you'll only get 500 :)
Being social? Layer 8 issues? Poor Discoverability ? 🤯
Bros google really? you can do better. But you know what thanks for being the man in the arena and actually DOING something. Also for folks on mobile request the desktop website. Tap the fx bar on sheets to edit cells, not cells themselves
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