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@ ابو مريم
2025-05-03 22:59:40
Update on this project: building on nostr is slow, wild, and increadibly fun!
Three months in and we have a small team formed (you know who you are), multiple podcast ideas drafted, and about to push the first into development.
One thing I've realized is that it might be better to be more public about development. This is largely considering this project is exclusive to nostr and reach here is limited without significant amplification (shares, "zap-ads", etc).
A major goal of this project is not just to produce content but to build community. Artistic communities are passionate, innovative, and diverse which are all things we need to encourage, and I think nostr itself encourages.
If you're not passionate about nostr you're probably spending most of you time on other SM platforms. Time spent in this space speaks mountains! Bitcoiners generally recognize this thanks to a healthy understanding of time preference, but most creatives are also the "staving artist" type who never see appreciation for their content during their lifetime. Their real passion is for the creation flow state, not the potential "fame" of success.
To be a nostr user also requires one to innovate. Anyone who has been in this space for a few months has learned the need to bounce between clients to break from limitations or just to gain "fresh perspective". The bug and constraints of building SM all over from protocal require innovation to survive. Yes, some ("normies") aren't cut out for it and we see this in active npub rates and feedback from onboarding experiences. Not everyone has developed the problem solving skills to be able to navigate the abiguity of nostr. This is again why I believe artists will continue to find nostr special as it plays to their strengths.
The real juice is in the diversity. Connecting artists with developers is where nostr has the chance of exploding. Culture isn't just bitcoiners or tech bros or geo-politics. If we want a real social network on nostr, it takes getting multitudes of diveres interests together, to share all that knowledge and disseminate their collective intelegence. Isalmic civilization is already primed for this as it has always encouraged cultural formation.
All that said, I invite you to follow nostr:npub1vmgf2pzv8k3fsch2hvc5uqnp9kvrxwrfgucek95528zax3syfwtqhykxpn and engage publicly in it's development. Culture is fluid and this project is just one drop in an ocean. Dive in and get wet! I don't expect it to make any waves for some time, but it will be exciting to explore how all this works and gets passed on to future generations. nostr:note1cxvswf5vyutpydgmhs5qujdnwptmjm2rnx9y8khzszv244jd256sz0ea3n