Oddbean

I mean we should choose to use some of the OpenSats money for PR. I’m not saying it’s a good idea, but we have resources. Honestly I’d rather use it to fund non-dev non-bitcoin projects who want to try and bring communities of users on to Nostr. Discord grew to be huge without much mainstream press. Getting hype leads to the boom and bust cycles like happened with Threads.

Woots! Go Roya! something light with a touch of humour would be interesting. Content wise : 1. between what’s engaging and what you like. 2. Simple and not tech scary lingos :) Time : 30 secs - 2 mins clips ? < 5 mins ? Topics : gotta brain storm this - 1. A parody of Google's "Parisian Love" ad to illustrate how everything is tracked. Karnage has valuable insights on this. 2. Interviewing people on Nostr from diff countries and ask how Nostr can benefit their country - just straightforward points 3. Also ask them why they personally love Nostr - that 1-2 sentences 4. Ask your parents how communication has changed in Iran pre and post-Ayatollah regime. 5. Small communities in St Louis - those fun short interviews on them zapping for the first time and and getting people’s excited facial reactions 6. How does gov’ts /CCP track you. A simple example based on what you are triggered to buy, wear, do, think try etc based on what you clicked like once. You can interview a dev and ask these questions 7. Did you know section : every year thousands of posts are asked to be taken down by gov'ts.are governments protecting you or themselves ? Interview more devs 8. tools like music apps, highlighter - have devs work with users to try and you their feedbacks (this can be over time to show how things get better) You may want to set a % breakdown of contents, your brand identity, target market etc. it can also be trial and error, see what works and excites you and the viewers. Slowly find your niche. But it sounds great. Good luck!

we should use some funds for marketing, PR, branding. Establish differentiators between clients. Understand what are the talking points in all the smaller user markets that can be tapped into. Would be great to have mainstream media but we do not need excessive $$$ for it. Tapping into micro influencers, blogs, reviews, small media - starting small - can get the fire going just as much.

And also use funds for Nostr UX. Do testing with various apps / services we use with Nostr to learn how to do it better. I think we could have a kind of Nostr UX service that looked at individual apps and also any systemic UX issues which are shipping user experience and we could make better. A lot of the issues aren’t up to individual app developers, but are related to protocol.

I think clients are finding their identity and niche. This might interest you (I don't have the bandwidth to update it though) : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GjfN_eMiEywqXfKFHZMw4rLnoQLBXYEyl2NCEtsCXWw/edit

yea, the change is fast. The progression of dev, no of clients and apps would also make great stats. If you know of anyone who is passionate abt Nostr and can do a way better job maintaining this, would love to pass it on. I think its so useful

if you're going to use money to advertise you have to focus your advertising on people who would be interested in this product. for example it would be total waste of time to advertise to boomers on Facebook or to shit-libs on Mastodon. on other hand there is quite a lot of transplants from GAB here on Nostr. GAB is much bigger than Nostr right now so you could pick up quite a few people from there. not every person on GAB is a nazi too. for example Dr. Robert Malone is currently under attack on GAB for not being a Nazi: https://gab.com/RobertMaloneMD he was smart enough to invent MRNA vaccine perhaps he's also smart enough to use Nostr if somebody got in touch with him.

if you want to advertise try to do it through Joe Rogan - that would ensure you're tapping into the right audience. Alex Jones is an option as well. Personally i am here because of nostr:nprofile1qqsw4v882mfjhq9u63j08kzyhqzqxqc8tgf740p4nxnk9jdv02u37ncprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctvqyvhwumn8ghj7ur4wfshv6tyvyhxummnw3ezumrpdejqz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmcxqkwf0 and nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3samnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wddhkcmrfv3jhytnc09aqzxrhwden5te0wajkccm0d4jjumn0wd68ytnhd9hx2cfkckq If you can get big names in the freedom movement like Rogan, Jones, Stefan Molyneux etc. to join that would attract a lot of people just don't waste time and money advertising to people who aren't interested in freedom ( liberals ) or technology ( boomers )

I think advertising would be a HORRIBLE use of money. That said, personally I have zero interest in seeing Joe Rogan or Alex Jones’ audience when I use Nostr. I’m not saying they can’t use nostr, it’s just not who I want to see. I strongly suspect we have little in common socially or politically. I liked talking to @hodlbod because he’s looking at creating community space for christian nostr. I’m a militant atheist and want a nostr to be a place where we can have both church groups and @s3x_SOCIAL style hard core gay porn. Both communities should be able to use it, see the kind of content and community they want. To do that we need to let people setup some boundaries and space.

Yeah, there’s tons of stuff I don’t want to see. I don’t want part of my digital experience. I mute folks all the time. In fact, we’ve got a ticket that lets me choose to use other lists as mutes as well, so I don’t have to do all the muting myself. Nobody’s forcing you to mute anything, want to wade through offensive shit, go for it. Don’t like what I say, mute me.

I’ve brought up the censorship conversation a few times on Nostr. I think the general consensus is “build them but never have one ring to rule them all.” Each client should have a library of mute/ban setups that the user can choose from.

yes ! censorship should be non-destructive ! it should be based on users choosing to filter their feed not on information getting holocausted from the network. and it shouldn't even be up to the client. there should be blacklists any user can choose to install on any client to filter results. you should be able to run as few or as many of these blacklists as you want.

spam blocking doesnt work well in amethyst until you have enough follows for reports to work, it fucks up your feed but global then works better, its why we need multiple lists and algos and a market for them you can copy whole follow lists with iris.to

I use it because I want to know what @Vitor Pamplona is up to and what the android nostr experience is like. I don’t use android as my primary mobile OS because it’s a ux, security and surveillance mess. 💣

we have more in common sociopolitically than you realize. no i am not gay and i don't have purple hair but actually i am on Nostr because i'm sick and tired of all the Christians on GAB. and i have links to Tranny porn on my own website. i don't see the value of attracting Christians to NOSTR because GAB is already a paradise for Christians. GAB CEO and Kanye West is as close as Christians will ever get to the 2nd coming of Jesus. also when i signed up with Coracle i was asked to agree to not post any porn, which i find disappointing. i love porn and while it is debatable whether porn is speech to me it is NOT debatable that porn ban ( a ban on something voluntary that doesn't hurt anybody ) is antithetical to freedom.

Gab is awful lol I banned uploading porn on coracle because I was personally hosting and moderating the content. I've now switched to nostr.build, so as reluctant as I am to have people use coracle for porn, you now only have to abide by their terms, not mine.

thank you for clarifying. i really think you need to make this clearer during the sign up process though. when i was hit with the "no porn" i had no idea whose rule that is or why such a rule was adopted. a logical assumption would have been that maybe it is to avoid legal responsibility for any potential child porn or something like that - it never even crossed my mind that i am again dealing with Christians right after having escaped GAB. and more importantly had i known this rule was specific to Coracle i would have chosen a different client. and if you would rather have perverts like me use something else you can suggest a different client. i use big screen TVs hooked up to tower workstations running windows - so anything good that would work for this setup i would be willing to try.