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 THERE IS SO MUCH TALK ABOUT THESE UNKOWN USERS, THESE FUTURE NPUBS THAT NOSTR NEEDS SO BADLY OR IT... FAILS

WTF IS THIS IDEA? 

WHY IS THE FOCUS ALWAYS ON GETTING RANDOS YOU DON'T KNOW TO USE THE PROTOCOL? 

THERE IS THE SAME FALSE PREMISE TO SCALING BITCOIN 

WHY IS THE FOCUS ON THESE PEOPLE WHO DON'T CARE OR ARE TOO STUPID TO FIGURE IT OUT

WHAT IS SO WRONG WITH A SMALL CLUB OF RIDE OR DIES?

YOU ARE NOT HERE TO SAVE ANYONE, IT IS STARTING TO FEEL LIKE SOME DIGITAL WHITE MAN'S BURDEN VIBES UP IN HERE



 
 I partially agree, but there are some people that just don't know about it yet. Still growth on nostr is slow and organic at the margin 
 WHO GIVES A SHIT? 

DO YOU KNOW ABOUT EVERY BAND, EVERY BAR, EVERY WEBSITE? 

NO ONE NEEDS SAVING

THEY DON'T FUCKING CARE 
 There are people that will be interested, I am not saying to open a propaganda ministry. But keep talking to those that wanna hear it 
 I DON'T TELL ANYONE ABOUT NOSTR OR BITCOIN

EVERYONE IS ALL CHARLIE MANSON LOOKING FOR THEIR FLOWER GIRLS 
 Obviously, I give a shit.

It's more of a Black Womans' Burden, in my case, tho. 
 1) Nostr is a protocol. So long as at least 2 people use it to interact, it hasn't failed. You're right.

2) People will get Nostr when they deserve. You're right.

3) The hectic feeling comes from the big grant givers, who need to show stats and progress.

But:
Marketing and explaining Nostr is important because everyone should at least hear about it, once. Just seems fair. I'm glad someone told me about it and I want to pay that forward. 
 I THINK YOU ARE CORRECT THAT HIGH TIME PREFERENCE UNICORN VC MONEY CLOUDS EVERYTHING

VC BRAINS ONLY THINK OF PUPPIES EATING CHOW

I AM JUST TIRED OF EVERYONE MISSING THE FOREST FOR THE TREES 
 I think it's possible to remain visionary without going full shroom. 
 I THINK MANY PROJECTS COULD MARKET THEMSELVES WAY BETTER

BUT THE AVERAGE NPUB OUT HERE PROSELYTIZING NOSTR IS GETTING LAME 
 Yeah. I'm trying to teach basic marketing and product-placement skillz, but a lot npubs just act allergic to them. 😂
Everyone is about trying to build The Only App and get famous people to use it. Well, whatever. Can't save everyone.

Someone is going to make a killing on some obscure Bowling App, or something, and the We Need More Influencers and User NGU people are going to look silly. 
 1000000% 
 #siamstr is probably nostr's greatest success imo. Not even sure how it happened, seems to be organic or something. Tempted to switch to playstore so I have the autotranslates to dip into it. 
 Far more interesting than the redditors who didn't stay, the Matt taibbi followers who didn't stay, the tik tok-ers who didn't stay
.. lol 
 Yeah, fr.

I'm also way more interested in the "philosophy clique" and the "chill, broke Europeans" and the "peeps who like planting veggies" and "Puerto Ricans smoking a blunt" and etc. than in chasing people down who don't get the value proposition.

There are lots of people who weren't being served and Nostr finally makes serving them profitable.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F33s7kkz90c0c1.jpg 
 YES & JUST BECAUSE I CAN IMPORT MY NSEC DOESN'T MEAN THAT CLIENT NEEDS TO SHOW ME THE SAME FEED OR GIVE ME ALL THE RELAY OPTIONS. MAYBE BLUNT SMOKIN PUERTO RICANS ONLY WANT TO SEND PHOTOS OF BLUNTS WITH NO COMMENTS AND ONLY HAVE ZAPS THAT TURN THE SCREEN INTO A CLOUD OF SMOKE WHEN RECEIVED.  
 😂 That would be hilarious. 
 AND ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE, TAYLOR SWIFT'S NOSTR CLIENT AND RELAY WOULD HAVE VERY USER SPECIFIC FUNCTIONALITY TO SHAPE THE EXPERIENCE

WHY USE A BASIC NOSTR APP WHEN YOU CAN CREATE YOUR OWN UNIVERSE 
 There is an opportunity to get some marketing off the back of the mashtastic tinkerers, what with people building using both, and Meshtastic really taking off on yourube. I think that is a good match, all sorts of tinkerers in general too, tinkering in gardens, tinkering with code, tinkering with DIY, tinkering with synths etc etc

Nostr is a place for tinkerers lol. That's my take  
 Use obtanium so you don't need to use the play store to get the play store version.  
 I do t know anything about obtainium, but will look into it! 
 It's an installer for apps that support it. It's very slick. I wish more apps would support it. Amethyst does and it's fast and easy.  
 nostr:nevent1qqs0yv96na5a3yp2qje39h2l39kcsrej7mry3n9j9n7d2aque797d2cpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q3qgcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqxpqqqqqqzmxlqsc 
 Why Obtanium instead of F-droid? Or are they for different use cases 
 Obtanium is much faster to get the update, plus you get push notifications of updates instead of possibly not getting them on f-droid.  
 Gotcha. So it sounds like f-droid may be more for those with a security preference of manual-only updates, and obtanium is more about permissionless access to the content that everyone gets, without needing to go through Google. Thanks! 
 That's a pretty decent summary. 

F-droid is pretty archaic, and I'd like to see more devs also support obtanium.  
 Makes sense. Will spend more time looking at obtanium if there are way more choices 
 It is a very long and entertaining story.  If you want to know, I will find an opportunity to tell you in the future. 
 #siamstr is one of my absolute favorite parts of #nostr 
 What brings us, the Siamstr community, together is the knowledge we gain from @Right Shift . We engage in various activities together, such as Thailandzappathon, meetups, and Live on Zapstream. We value everyone in our community 
 maybe the king doesn't know about it yet  
 contentment eludes the hype addict. 
 Source: The Modern Dao