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@ Satosha
2025-05-12 19:08:29
The problem that we are currently focused on is censor ship resistance .. a noble cause but appeals to few - and rightly so , we already have attracted people who value freedom .. they are excited about nostr even though initiation may not be easiest !
But for 99 percent of the population "censorship " is not really a problem .. no one in my real life circle has ever been censored by X or Insta :-)
The key problem that nostr solves for masses is - one singular password for entire internet - but the appreciation for such schema becomes apparrent only when we have diverse set of applications .. for example banking , vacations rentals , travels, ride share etc . Till we have many such solutions , the appeal to normies wrt a "singular log in" is very limited .. so , they assume nostr is another social media .. which they have 100 options .. and frankly no one wants another social tool (:-
And building many apps shall take time .. (obviously) ..
So meanwhile , the killer app is zaps .. it attracts creatives .. not only as sole money making objective ..but recognition of their work .. additionally , creatives love freedom .. kinda good overlap with anti censorship enthusiasts ..
The interim goal, should, thus be , attracting creatives .. some suggestions are
- we should not expect creatives to be #nostrOnly .. give them tools to share their creative work to all the platforms .. for example , every time they note on nostr .. the note should automatically go to their chosen playmtforms .. x , insta , tiktok etc .. so nostr kinda becomes their freedom content management layer ..
- let them bring their work to nostr without having to copy their media again .. for example thousands of podcasts , hundreds of public domain books , music can be quickly made accessible through nostr ..
- subscriptions management - like Patreon but much more .. for example , a podcaster can't even send a newsletter to their subscribers on Spotify .. on youtube , I don't even know who are the people subscribing to my channel ! .. if creatives could move their subs to nostr for a wholistic subscriber management , they will do so at all their exposure platforms ..
- integration with creative apps - publish podcasts directly from audacity .. submit a longform directly from substack .. there are 100s of creative apps being rewritten with AI .. embed nostr natively into them ..