quoting note1ejy…ztcgwhile I agree it would be good to have more content to explain nostr, it won't really matter given the current onboarding and product experience. it's way too confusing for folks, and generally not satisfying instantly. people will and do churn out.
if there's one thing to focus on (for the social media use case) it's search. both for people, but more importantly, topics. Twitter won because of search. it wasn't a social network. it was an information network, and it excelled at real-time because of real-time search. that's a base requirement now.
what nostr adds, and what will make it sticky, is the multi-app/use-case ecosystem. but each use case is going to have different needs for attracting people to it. search is table stakes for the social media one. it won't matter how good the tutorial content is until this is done right.
nostr has the benefit right now of having a completely open and wild API. that matters as every other service is closing down. it's perfectly OK that we mostly have devs and bitcoin-obsessives at the moment. we have time to get all the kinks out and make something that's truly hard to replicate. where the only way to compete will be to join.
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Bluesky already won the search, not in the official app, but in 3rd party apps thanks to their access to the firehose, granted, that is easy when you have a single data store, so we will see as federation is introduced, but regardless, search can't be decentralized, it is always a function of crawling and aggregation, and that itself is very expensive. It can be competitive, but it will always be as centralized as Web Search.