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 No disrespect to our lovely nostr advocates and marketers - how might nostr hire the BlueScam chief of marketing? 

BlueScam marketer:

-convinced millions of people to leave corporation X for corporation Y
-convinced them to accept equal or worse censorship than that of X
-convinced VCs to pump $23m in something that is a complex version of a SQL database

Nostr would benefit to attract this level of (dare I say psy-op) level of talent. 


cc @OpenSats @fiatjaf @jb55 @7fqx @rabble 
 It's not about the marketing, it's about who is going there. If the left is going there, the rest of the left follows.  
 Maybe. I think some of these will change their mind given the right message, medium, and delivery man.

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 For sure! I vibe with that. Sometimes all it takes is the right pitch and the right person to flip the script. Let’s keep pushing! 💯✨ #ChangeMinds 
 Why are the left going there? That why is the reason trigger. NOSTR needs a reason trigger. 
 Because Elon bought twitter...  
 Then why not #nostr ? Lack of MSM coverage? Lack of awareness? Or simply because their community on Twitter moved to BlueSky, highlighting that community is key. 
 I like the organic growth and users here. 
 I disagree. And also think that it would be the worst thing possible to dump more money into nostr from douchey VC types.  
 Nostr is in a completely different realm than the other social media apps/protocos. The other apps feel like being in a big loud popular restaurant while nostr feels like you’re on the outside build on a new frontier.

My gut feeling is that someone is going to realize that note/zap relayed transactions are completely unstoppable and will start building an entirely new infrastructure based on the protocol. 
 Well, yeah. It's already happening.  
 I am not advocating for VC in nostr - this is not possible. I’m advocating that one marketer is attracted to nostr. 
 That's basically the same thing these days. So, no thanks.  
 Once our clients and tools are a bit more mature, I believe it would be very beneficial to have a community led, decentralized marketing team and growth team trying to grow Nostr and onboard the masses. That is my hopes and dreams with the Grow Nostr Initiative. 
 I don’t know the level of involvement needed and it may vary, but I’ll throw my hat in the ring and have valid experience. 
 It might help but it's not needed imo.