Getting more convinced that onboarding someone into Nostr can follow two paths:
1. Onboard into a Client, not into Nostr. You "sell" a specific client and don't even use the word Nostr. You are onboarding people into Primal, Amethyst, Damus, etc. Not into Nostr. The protocol doesn't matter.
2. Onboard into Nostr. If you want to onboard to the "protocol", you should onboard them to a Nostr app store, like Zap Store. The store will then on board them into everything else, including a client of your choice.
In practice, you can choose to keep them attached to a brand or to take them into a freedom journey.
But don't sell Nostr and then lock them into Amethyst. That doesn't work. Either sell Amethyst and get them into Amethyst, or sell Nostr and get them into a Nostr store.
Of course, Nostr stores must be ready to onboard people from scratch, which none of them are.
But we can fix that.
We care. That's why we're here. Apparently we're "no one" now.
I was curious about NOSTR because of the relationship with bitcoiners... Yes, I installed Amethyst, I'm learning...
I don’t recall it being difficult to understand even when we didn’t have much of anything. I knew there was nostr and one way to access it was Damus.
Content / people / community is the biggest hurdle.
Back in the days, Nostr was just a few apps and all of them were kind 1 apps. It's much bigger now and people are getting confused by the options and how to set things up correctly.
These days with so many NIPs doing different things that don't show up in every client makes it hard to figure out what event kinds your friend is using so that you can find the app that displays that kind.
Moving forward it's going to get harder and harder onboard people in the clients with the right features.
What’s your source for “getting confused by the options”?
Users emailing why things show up on some clients but not on others.
you've made the typical mistake of assuming the average person is smart(they're not)
Facebook > Twitter > Instagram > Damus / Amethyst 👏🏽
yes/cross platform sharing
Love it. This use-case dialogue continuing and maturing, all the way down to user onboarding UX per use case per client is the way to mass adoption.
No speed bumps. No confusion. No distractions.
Just use case to signup flow to expected behavior to effective engagement.
This. More apps should be in zapstore so users can choose from a bunch of options there.
Different needs / types of people can offer different onboarding flows (so different clients as well).
Until we get better interoperability between clients, you have to pick a client and sell that client, and Nostr separately. I choose Amethyst because I use Android exclusively. And because Amethyst is way better than anything else on Android, that's what I pitch to others. Because to do otherwise only introduces problems. I sell Nostr first, then Amethyst second. And I advise people to only use Amethyst because taking an nsec created with Amethyst does not play well with other clients, and vice-versa, and almost no one is willing to create a new nsec with each new client they want to try, but it seems that is where we are.
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