Oddbean

Matt Tabbi tried. Just not enough of an audience yet. I was excited he was here are sent some decent zaps. Many did. Hard to do scale. I also think Nostr is for everyone. My view is that people need to change for Nostr, not the other way around though. They need to learn to value their freedoms. They need to learn how easily those are taken. Basically, they need to be awake to reality. We *should* build good software, and offer good services, but the biggest turn off to Nostr for a lot of people are the things that make Nostr Nostr. We can’t (and shouldn’t) fix or ice over those things. We shouldn’t pitch as being as “good as” or a “alternative to” MSM services. We’re not. We’re something different, right? We’re *better* than YouTube or Twitter. But we’re also harder to use and require learning new things. Nostr is not an alternative, it’s a new paradigm.

Sure but people can change here also. Bitcoin and Nostr are great tools for change - we all know how deep the rabbit hole is People will come for content that interests them and when they come they will have an option to learn more about other stuff Not everyone is focused on freedom and privacy - many are just obeying citizen who do not have any idea about the lack freedom and privacy out there

I think learning was the simple point Huw was making, no? How do people learn? By reading/being educated (and of course by being burnt by the old ways to force a mindset change). Learning usually translates into easy to understand plain English content (alongside word of mouth) which could be included during the onboarding process of a nostr client/app. (Maybe why @fiatjaf was calling for nostr diagram submissions?). You’re not changing nostr, just using an opportunity to educate/explain and facilitate self-learning and understanding of Nostr (thereby reinforcing their purple pilling). Obviously, content about the nostr protocol is growing across the board anyway so perhaps it’s not so important now (but surely every opportunity should be exploited to spread the word). Speaking of which, one that needs improving is the Wikipedia entry for the nostr protocol. It’s pants! Yes, Wikipedia is often viewed with disdain but I’m sure a lot of “newbie/normie/plebs” use it as a starting point. (I’m going to look into that).