Oddbean new post about login | logout Agreed, but as long as this place broadcasts bitcoin and lightning then this is all it will ever be. Nostr stinks of crypto scam to normies. My suggestion is to build a client without a zap button, host a relay that rejects bitcoin influencers. Let local culture take root.
Like the very successful and friendly Nostr ad that circulated on insta some time ago had no mention of any crypto economy and promised non-polarising cesorship resistant social media.. It was good
Please finish this plugin for me. I ran out of juice https://github.com/telamon/strfry-geofilter
zaps already optional.
In practice yes but in UX language no (the button is there, the metric is there). As a new user escaping radicalization you are instead given a wet slap of religion.
Every mainstream website is a slap of authoritarian "accept my terms to surveil you or leave" which would be much more off-putting in a sane world. These people who reject bitcoin as a scam are gravely misinformed, because their fiat money is an actual scam. People worried about scams need to take a hard look at who they are trusting because it's the wrong sources. Maybe they come to nostr to get some truth for once, but it's too hard a pill to swallow.
I'm all for local nostr, but I think there is a conflict with privacy. Something that can be fixed with more design and some NIPs though, once it's thought through.
I designed the algorithm to be privacy preserving, 300km range is cheap < 1min, 50km range tricky ~10min 4m range, good luck I wished to incentivize at least 1 relay per 300km around the globe, but I think people were busy.