Its poor form, despite all the shortcomings of bluesky.
Would rather have real world examples of how nostr is awesome, and how the experience cannot and does not exist anywhere else.
I ask in the context of improving nostr landing pages. Some non-nostr apps sometimes do things well. Nostr devs should learn from things that work well.
> It’s bad because you won’t own anything on a site with signup/login.
> At sign up, you are just requesting to be recorded in some company's database.
Sure, you and I and many on nostr understand this.
For the new to nostr normie login/signup is a standard pattern.
@Derek Ross point of exercise is to identify what works well, and what doesnt.
For instance, per @Linda discovery “decentralized” keyword has been converted to snake oil by the VC fundsd crypto scammers.
Perhaps nostr should avoid this marketing at the very least on landing pages to stay as far as possible away from the scammers, and the scam funding VCs.
1) Remove all instances of keyword “decentralization”. This is used by the VC funded crypto scammers at farcaster
2) “what is njump” - people feel that njump dot me is a virus website. There should be a clear explanation as one of first things seen if folk have the courage to open a njump link. E.g. “njump previews notes published on nostr” as a sub header
3) for the love of my eyes, please improve the contrast - light grey on white; grey on grey is difficult to see for me and others (I am not a boomer, and I struggle with low contrast designs across nostr and beyond). Ideally black font - white background
4) in discussion with @franzap I’ve come to appreciate the term own. “Own your identity”. “Take your friends with you” (your implies ownership of this relationship)
5) per convo with @Alex Gleason@Alex Gleason 🐍🚬 current optics are there is free speech on twitter. Yes nostr has this, unlike twitter. That said nostr positioning should focus on nostr strength on taking your identity, friends, content with you in *hundreds/thousands* of nostr apps. This is a unique experience.
See @Linda findings nostr:note1mrdgqx93vc8nv465e853nvex5qvkzassrysq4effd68kaxdc8wys64f57c
Really? If I see spam/low quality/ poorly executed or designed landing page I close a mobile page right away.
@fiatjaf is the last desktop user remaining anyway, and he knows mobile rules over desktop
2) I perpetually receive the njump dot me looks like a virus link from non-nostr friends I have shared the njump link with. They are afraid to open the link
5) I dont see it explained as one of the first things in the screenshot you shared. If anything, the two visible paragraphs are a somewhat vague sounding problem statement.
I am looking for the answer to “What is the benefit/benefits? “ in the first few lines.
> he need for nostr can be viewed from different perspectives
At this stage it may be more appealing when it looks like it’s made by a smaller number of people, what it actually is, with the wish to be supported to fight for decentralization. It’s a call to create & to build together, an invitation for a new way to communicate with the wide world
Hmm. An idea popped from @franny perspective
@dtonon@fiatjaf@Linda
What if there were a website “nostr is for ______ “ where the home page cycles between apps, profile pictures of the developers, and a few users + quotes + PFPs (similar to the njump.me landing page intro animation) https://image.nostr.build/b4bc7800d48df515e04538bde0ef3aedcaa2713030d38ec344dabb535e72e3b5.png
View 1/n “Nostr is for freedom maximalists”
Jb55 PFP creator of Damus app
Enthusiastic damus supporter #1 PFP + quote “I love zaps”
View 2/n “Nostr is for anarchists” Rabble PFP + Nos app Enthusiastic Nos supporter #1 PFP + quote “I love my moderated community”
View 3/n “Nostr is for musician” Mike PFP + Tunestr app + enthusiastic mysician “value for value on nostr lets me escape from the app” etc
As opposed to a vague and broad protocol description, there are now concrete examples of real apps from real devs solving problems for real customers. There is one nostr. There are many apps, devs, and customers.
cc @elidy
@frphank imagine you are measuring your nephew’s height. He is a healthy young lad visibly progressing well.
Your ruler uses cm or inches - whatever your preference is.
All of a sudden the international society of ruler central planners decree that today’s cm/inches are 40% smaller than yesterday’s cm/inches.
Did your nephew grow 40% in height overnight?
This is fiat central planning in a nutshell. All economic calculation is persistently and periodically rugged.
Good point.
Can you buy things with Nvidia shares, real estate, or silver bars?
All investments are converted to currency accepted locally prior to consumption.
Sure. Happy to talk about that.
Before we do that do you agree all your investments must be converted to your local fiat currency (I presume you are not in @BitcoinJungle, Btc Ekasi, or a similar village/town)?
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