Folks in general won’t care about the tech. It is incredible and most people won’t care in the slightest.
Folks in general won’t care about coming to Nostr because of Bitcoin too much but they will use zaps when they arrive.
Folks in general don’t particularly care about their own freedoms. They will beg corporate tech providers for digital ID for convenience just for the illusion of safety. They don’t particularly care about free speech either, they say that they care but they don’t. They don’t particularly care about privacy or the NSA/CIA/FBI being all up inside our tech providers. They don’t actually care. They just want to feel safe.
If folks come to Nostr it will be because they either seek out a specific community and or probably because it will have an edgy underground sex appeal that will bring artists, activists and journalists (not the corny kind but the edgy kind. The ones who actually move culture and shift the vibe.) In general people are followers. If they come it’s because they will want to feel hip (it’s gross but true.)
The good news about all of that is that the masses are rather insufferable mushed together screaming at one another. Corporate tech has a lot of problems Nostr gets to avoid right now by being smaller. On top of all of it remaining slightly smaller for now while corporate tech is being pummeled by legislation globally isn’t a bad thing.
Posting about bitcoin won’t bring the people. Being better tech won’t bring the people. Freedom won’t bring the people. It will probably be a popular makeup artist that likes zaps or something that brings the people.
quoting note1yt7…9j2pThe Q3 2023 Twitter Migration report is out: https://www.deweysquare.com/digital/twitter-migration-report/
It shows Nostr is holding steady after Threads tsunami. We’ve got users, interest, and development but we’re stuck in a bitcoin / crypto echo chamber. The problem isn’t the tech directly so much as culture. How can we cultivate millions of communities with their own values and norms. Sure they can use lightning for payments, but mostly people won’t be here because they believe in nostr or bitcoin. In fact for both to succeed we need folks who don’t care about the underlying tech at all.