Oddbean new post about login | logout I'm looking at a number of these, they are all good, but I think I'll make my own. The audience is very much concerned about free speech, but probably not very techical. I'm thinking something like this: NOSTR is bringing everybody FREE SPEECH ONLINE. Nostr is not a company, it is an open protocol that supports censorship-resistant social media and other interactions over the Internet. You control your own account (you hold the keys) so you cannot be cancelled and lose your followers. Redundant and Dynamic: It resists censorship because you can post content to many places and then change where you post at any time without your followers even noticing. Decentralized: there is no central point for a would-be censor to put pressure upon. There are already hundreds of apps: chat, blogging, videos, recipes, art, music, and more. It even supports micropayments! Here are a few webpages to help you get started: https://nostr.how https://nostrapps.com https://njump.me https://nostr.net https://usenostr.org
Mmm. A nostr explainer flyer..interesting. I have a few resources in the nostr meetup kit, even flyers, but no 101 explainer flyer yet. What size are you thinking of printing and will it be in color? If you searched flyers online, is there a particular one that you like the look of. I may be able to help, and to have something like that available for others as well. If you’d like. Here’s what I have already, with a link to editables on figma. https://freedomweaver.tech/keep-tech-weird/nostr/index.html
Maybe A5 printed both sides, color and glossy
There is a print company in town that I can have print them. I suppose they would deal with the "glossy" bit.
Thank you. I’ll get a first draft A.S.A.P, A5 double sided, with the ideas above. Please let me know if you have any stylistic preferences.
That's awesome! Take liberties with the content if you think of something better.
First draft. What could be improved? Are we missing anything? Is there something that should not be there? https://image.nostr.build/4c8050dd4aae65ee2ac8d2c1b7823f0424ceb12f298ed7dc4f7d6307affc1221.png https://image.nostr.build/850424e2b037531706a4fb3f4e7ec2c4ebebfc51d2fd3c192ed38ceb97ae6af0.png
I think the styling is fine. I like that all 5 websites I listed are shown and don't take much space. Although many people on nostr think zaps are the best thing since sliced bread, I'm not sure that will draw in more people than it will repulse even with the red explanation. For this crowd I think we should leave off that selling point. Many normal people get nervous once you talk about sending money, either due to fear of the government and being a criminal, or fear of a scam. Let them get orange pilled after they get purple pilled. I think mentioning something more like "a protocol not a company" might be more effective than "A company doesn't own your nostr, you do" because the latter isn't clear that there is no company behind this at all... just that the possibly imainged company claims to not own you. So even though "protocol" is a technical word, I think it communicates a lot here in one word that non-technical people can just gloss over without being too confused. "Your followers can find your content, regardless of where on nostr you post your notes" is informative, but doesn't quite explain how it is that nostr is censorship resistant, whereas something like "you can post to any servers you choose, there are already thousands, and you can dynamically move away from servers that censor you without affecting your followers" or something like that.... at least people that have tried Mastodon will understand that. I don't think "highly customizable settings" will matter to these people, nor "built around a web of trust of who you follow." Instead of very short bullet points like these, I think fewer but longer explanatory phrases would be more effective. These will be highly educated politically active older people, less interested in bullet points that are too short for them to get the picture, and possibly even the kind of people who would read proposed legislation which is ridiculously detailed and precise. So we should move to longer sentences with more precise statements I think.
Draft 2. Please let me know any observations. I hope it’s closer to what you have in mind. https://image.nostr.build/08c600891073e3f64f32e7175d6f86f8a8f4f07aef6111f8088cfa2462cc2b31.png https://image.nostr.build/7c5337cd8321737ac349243a5896e08fdd065af1892c1a8a93ea71bea99b4aa0.png
I think that is good. I can use that. Thank you! 🫶
Files are ready. Here’s the link to them. Please let me know if you can access them. I’ll update the figma later on too. https://file.io/4tk8dvk365Ip
I got them. I'll take them to the printers tomorrow.
