I'm just saying the people who actually bother to come here and check it out (which I agree won't be most people), but those people who actually have heard of Nostr and are curious enough to join... Out of those people the people who actually voice and opinion about why they're not staying or what they're struggling with, the content issue is imo the most tricky problem.
You can imagine fixes to tech problems. But it is far more difficult to imagine a cultural shift.
It's a totally unscientific take cos we'll never know why most people don't stay lolol, most people won't say anything ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. The people checking out and leaving nostr probably arent looking for the perfect content paradigm, but they seem to not be looking for a bitcoin telegram group either.
I think there are potential solutions to this is forums and feeds and whatnot. Maybe, hopefully ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
We have no beautiful people posting pics of themselves.
We have no destructive conversations with well known people / politicians to go viral.
We have no drama here that is enticing people to follow.
We can't compete on these things & most likely never will.
Social media is an addictive emotional rollercoaster, Nostr is basically just a public telegram chat that anyone can tailor for themselves.
You're saying this as if it isn't the feature, but it totally is.
It's not just Bitcoin talk either, that's just not true & the people focused on that probably have nothing to offer & no community building skills.
That's okay too, but don't tell me there's some systemic issue of Bitcoiners that needs to be cleansed.
Ridiculous.
I don't think you need the things you listed to entice people. (Reddit/subreddits have none of those things really).
This is the complaint you hear about nostr over and over. Why? Could it be that the onboarding set up pushes people towards bitcoin content and personalities? Partly, maybe. Nostr is predominantly bitcointwitter people, I think that is fair to say (?). There's a lot of bitcointwitter slogans, in-jokes and memes and etc, I think that is also fair to say(?). I think this is just the situation and it's not really surprising. But it is also putting people off. I don't think this is really that outlandish 🤔
Yes there are other topics, but perhaps not enough or enough conversations around them to keep people interested.
Maybe you think there is nothing to the complaints? I'm not sure.
Reddit has all of the things, porn & toxic convo included & more but that's a bad example because they leveraged in use forum structures & just allowed for everyone to build out their own communities meanwhile not forcing anyone to sign up to read it.
Why do all these Bitcoiners create a presence on Nostr?!
This is a much more intelligible conversation than the inverse: "how do we dilute Bitcoiners on Nostr".
Bitcoiners, at large, are attracted to freedom & anti-coercion protocols even if inconvenient compared to alternatives.
Re: we're willing to sacrifice more & obtain less.
This is a pioneer's mentality.
Most people can't be part of that building environment of paving way for future users / communities to migrate to Nostr.
As of right now, most people who share novel content don't care about censorship so much that they're willing to basically cut their audience by 99% or waste time building their audience on something that is highly inconvenient.
People feel like if they leave the most used social medias that they are essentially accepting censorship & are basically leaving the global conversations & trends in the rearview mirror.
Guess what tho? Where is the best place to ask about Bitcoin related topics? ->#asknostr
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