Oddbean

I think the best narrative is interconnection of different apps. You get app with reviews of restaurants from your friends. Highlights of content. Posts and images. You can meet your friends at events. All these apps use the same identity and social graph. It's like if Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Medium, Yelp, Meetup, ... used the same backbone.

I think this is a strong angle. That being said, I do see some challenges in having my identity shared across multiple different platforms. For example. People communicate with their audiences quite differently on Instagram, compared with X, compared with Substack, and certainly when compared with LinkedIn. I’ve had a number of conversations with content creators who’ve mentioned this. It’s not a deal breaker for them, but it’s something I don’t have a very clear answer for. But overall - I think the portable identity and portable social graph is the biggest benefit, and the one worth leaning into with messaging & comms.

Yes. One possible angle is that they won't do it like that. If you post a photo, someone might look at it in a photo viewing app like Instagram, some might see it as a blog or a microblog. People looking at Nostr on Twitter often search for social media management app that can repost content from Twitter to Nostr. I always suggest not to do that, Nostr is different and has its own language and interactions are different. And it's best to get a feel for it first. For creators, there are two ways of looking at it. First is that there is not much engagement here, you can't target, you can't convince the algorithm to show your posts. The old tricks don't work. On the other hand, for some niches, Nostr still is the least crowded channel (idea I got from Tim Ferris's work). Your competition is probably not here yet. It feels like town square, there is a nicer vibe to it. But maybe it just isn't for creators, maybe it's for a few of us and it'll stay like it and it's ok.