My experience as a decentralizion enthusiast who is fairly tech savvy and was excited about the possibilities of nostr: it has boomer energy, difficult discoverability (of people, topics, and all the awesome "apps"), it puts too much on the user. No ability to protect yourself from bad actors.
Boomer energy: stuck on ideology in a faith without works kind of way. This comes from the Bitcoin mentality ie "this is the future, it's the way and the light" ...but it hasn't solved peer to peer completely after 15 years.
Discover: search and community is lacking, reliant on hashtags you have to stumble on.
User ask: average user is retarded, I'm retarded most days, just let me click around I don't want to write a program myself to do basic tasks.
Good things: vibe is friendly, builders ship a lot and fast, zaps are cool, ui is better than blue sky, minds, mastodon, urbit etc
I'll add these examples from farcaster, which I think is getting a lot of these things right. Channels and the client list on their website are two huge advantages.
Channels shown here, easy to search and one click join and pin the top and for each post you can specify a channel. It's slick.
https://image.nostr.build/8d120ca730c8946e09ceb351e90a6f2160789f87a4461a200176bea63c99bf48.jpg
These are app specific sore points, and not nostr.
Ive said elsewhere, apps/clients are nostr, just like warpcast is farcaster. How people use your protocol is everything. Social clients are the intro for most end users, if they aren't useable neither its all useless.
I believe if the ecosystem of apps just gets one viral app made from left field, an omeagle, reddit, 4chan or other app that was ahead of its time and not existing elsewhere then this will highlight the power and bring people to nostr. Normies won't come because of principles, they will come for $$ or attention. Neitherorf these exist on nostr like they do on other parts of the interwebs.
Facebook and gmail is not the internet, no.
Okay have a useless protocol with nothing on it and no people then
To the end user that distinction is absolutely meaningless.
Are you talking about Nostr or some client?
I agree with what you wrote, but this is not inherent to Nostr itself. All that critique mostly addresses client side of things here, except user base I guess. When you write about UI it doesn't make sense, since Nostr has no UI on it;s own
Most of them. The ui in the ecosystem is overall good. Yes these are client side issues because the clients are how people use the protocol. Clients are nostr.
Agree. The clients are Nostr. They represent the ecosystem.
I love you so much. “Boomer energy” killed me. 💅🏻
Still has me in stitches 😂
Well said! Plurality will only grow if the Nostr experience (and possibilities) gets good enough so users that dissent with the current dominant tendencies and ideologies find enough value. Nostr is currently great for Bitcoin/Privacy/Self-sovereignty enthusiasts but has yet a long path to evolve to attract other and more voices. We will perceive Nostr success when it’s hard to find any dominant tendency, basically when it becomes an interesting mess.
"It has boomer energy" 😂👌
But u can say "retard" freely. :)
This is a key feature as I lost my first Twitter account to that word
That's what I think, and it'll still happening unless we overcome sectarianism and elitism.
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