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 What @fiatjaf says is painfully true.
This means learning and building a new UX paradigm, for a better future. And being patient and kind in its broad adoption.

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#nostrdesign 
 would make exciting marketing penetration 

Currently, tech enthusiasts, individuals with limited speech freedom, exiled from other platforms, seeking milder alternatives, Bitcoin users, and people with general social needs.

but i think planning out localisation strategy and engaging people here who want can contribute in some ways but are not programmers to onboard - city by city and eventually grow state by state, country by country would be a nice strategy to have. It could be from local relays, local news, local community stuff etc - and might give a nice balance to all 3 types of relays - private, public and third type of relay - was it community based? (i forgot what's the 3rd type of relay lol)

 
 I also think that the local, togheter with family and individuality, are great starting points.

Maybe "Topical relays"? :) 
 true. And hobbies too. maybe the fishing community, there is woodworking community that is quite impressive, home schoolers and more 
 I think the only viable way to differentiate a relay in the long term is being topical. Not much tools for that though  
 100%
Tools are evolving. 
 Exactly.

And someone is cooking something for them to make this possible, right @cloud fodder? :) 
 Yup!  😁 I think many more types of relays and  clients will be coming out as nostr progresses.  I've been working on a vision for relays where topical is one of the types that you can create/discover/join.  Relay.tools  
 NEW PARADIGM 

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 Slight disagree. The key is not to show urls and/or intricate details of the protocol. The key is to hide them behind a design that truly embraces, and maybe even reinforces, the benefits of an open protocol. Learning what a relay is should be a natural endeavor when the user is ready. 

But yes, simply copying Twitter is never going to work.  
 There are a ton of things that 20 years ago, people would complain were too complicated and the average user would never understand them.

Now these things are more commonplace because we've all had time to get accustomed to them.

When was the last time you heard the complaint that that funny 'a' looking thing was too technical? 
 You said it, 20 years ago.
And there weren't any big corporations that captured billions of people on less than 10 platforms, built with the focus to lazy people and put them on a consumption habit.
We are fighting a different beast.
But we need to, so let's go :)