Oddbean

Excuse the brain dump. I have been grappling with how to entice potential readers/customers on my website to try out Nostr. Nostr as in social media, because tht is how it is pitched (I hink wrongly, but hey, I justturned up!!) . My conclusion is that it is super easy to show someone to sign up to Amethyst say, but once signed up, what then? They look at a bunch of posts that may or may not make a good first impression. And if I say, to find me on Nostr, to see a feed you might identify with, just copy and paste a (mental long wtf) npub key? Compared to @XYZ that's a massive first hurdle right there, to enthuse a normie FB user into grappling with a move onto Nostr social media. And we arent even at signing back in or event signers yet! But like you, I had a light bulb moment. A trip through the apps on https://nostr.net/ is golden and inspired me to see Nostr in a new light, or as I suspect, the original light before the focus on social media clouded the overall (marketing) vision? I set up a web page yesterday, my attempt to woo potential new customers (zero tech heads) to try out Nostr via the world of other Nostr apps. Apart from going to home pages, they don't need to do anything to get a good first impression of what's available. Signing up for a Pinterest-like experience is not necessary. Just to see that there is a Pinterest on Nostr is pretty cool in itself. Spin through a few more. Mrs Jones from FaceBook is much more likely, in my view to be open to scarier terms like npubs and event signers etc. Im not dissing the Twitter-killer apps, at all, but think about it, social media is becoming poison because of how they do it on the other side. I did use to avoid social media like the plague. Nostr does social media right, honest, mate. I think that, really, but say it outloud to your mother, its not an easy sell. However saying that Nostr does Pinterest or form-filling right, thats more credible, no? Anyway, this is my pitch on my site. "In the tech world Nostr is best known as a "Twitter-killer" or the social media app built by Bitcoiners. I used to avoid social media like the plague, but Nostr is far from the gruesome Wild West experience it is portrayed as. Sure, there are a lot of Bitcoin enthusiasts and developers, but there's great conversation to be had on all sorts. And once I started to use hashags: #olives, #gardening, #chickens #catsr, or #asknostr, well, horizons have really opened up. (I show a nice pic of Amethyst for mobile, Satellite for desktop social media.) But Nostr apps are the big surprise. Nostr is actually a protocol that enables the construction of a new internet. An internet many say we sorely need. Nostr developers are releasing Twitter-killer, everything-killer apps on Nostr, almost daily. It is still very early in terms of choice, but I am very happy to incorporate the examples listed below into my business work flow. I follow with a quick spin through the apps that I am using or getting into. Lumina as a photo gallery Memester for fun inspiration Pinstr for pins no surprise Pollstr Mapstr Formstr Habla.news for long form posts I give the 1-2 how to sign into Nostr apps. And a link to a more expansive How To use Nostr and sign into apps secure and fast. Thats it. Re-reading my pitches for Mrs Jones on FB to join Nostr social media from cold now sounds faintly ridiculous. But if she has been wooed by other apps, she is more likely to answer the call to install Amethyst or whatever, so I can at least DM her when her eggs are coming. At the moment my website is on Ghost,which is pretty damn good. And I will need Whatsapp to send updates on delivery times. But if I can get my site onto Nostr with npub.pro bring it on. Because then I can really consolidate the business side of things. Customers will have the whole billing and zap payment option on the same page too. This protocol has got my vote.