That is completely incorrect, Facebook got massive because university students wanted an easy way to share pictures and tag friends, they had tens of millions of users before they even thought of the advertising model. People didn't use Facebook to look at ads, it was because of the product was good.
I can't even see 20% of the replies to your note because they aren't in my relay list, we can't even do the basics
The reasons people used facebook and the reasons Facebook got massive are not the same topic. Facebook absolutely started finding ways to monetize localized user data early on, and its growth potential combined with the potential to monetize that localized data is one of the reasons investors saw value in the company. Nostr’s design allows it to not be captured by those same corporate/advertiser interests. That should be an exciting prospect, unless your only goal is to argue with me.
My goal is to try to get Bitcoiners to stop with their echo chamber nonsense and ACTUALLY make nostr work for the masses. I am bought in I have my own relay and zap node, contributions to NIPs and clients. But there is a reason why we're not growing and it's not because a lack of zaps. Or because people don't understand freedom.
It's because the UX is trash, it's too complicated, there are no easily accessible discovery algorithms and it's just a bunch of us autists stackers circle jerking ourselves and posting the same mantras over and over again
You know what would increase zaps the most? Actually having more people here. Not circulating the same sats between the handful of bitcoiners already here.
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