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I think Nostr clients need to be significantly improved. Simple things that X and other platforms have that nostr clients don't: search others don't work well, slow scrolling, images don't load or very slow to load and stutter, missing other basic features. When these basic things are ready, more people can get onboard.

Why don't each of you go ask them over here? Each can move a few

I love how some of them complain about spam but any trending topic on Twitter slightly related to finance is flooded with shitcoin bot spam.

The overwhelming sentiment is that #nostr is a Bitcoin echo chamber. I challenged one person to encourage his/her 31K followers to join and talk about something other than Bitcoin.

Idk about you, but for me on X, I just RT stuff and I get a lot of followers. And they are 95% asian women, in their 30s, who like posting pics of nature and food and of them exercising. Pofiles look repetitious but real. I can't imagine how my profile appeals to such a specific demographic lile that; doesn't seem organic at all to me. Anything like that happens to you over there?

This is one pattern I keep noticing too: a lot of people seem to dislike Nostr, not just on Twitter. I always get dislikes when I make comments about it on Reddit in places like r/privacy and r/privacyguides. And not once have people been nice about it, or even curious about it. Which strikes me as very odd, given the disrupting potential that Nostr has to how we use the internet and how that would benefit ppl in those communities. I think that once Nostr becomes more diverse, polished, and its disruptive usecases grow, we will get people to rethink their opinions. Til then not much we can do imo.

I don’t have a login so can’t see the replies…. Ah 🐳

Good critical feedback in this thread

have patience. I still don't try to bring all my friends to Nostr. For the normies, it's important that they get great UX. For the more tech savvy, most are already on here.

Screenshots for the outsiders?

the audience is much less and much more concentrated than X. Only bitcoiners and maybe a few people who are into freedom tech are here. X has photographers, journalists, world leaders, etc.

When I talked about it on lemmy most people had a lot of negative impressions of the user base. Additionally and I myself felt this way, a lot of folks felt like mastodon was already succeeding, why have yet another piece of software doing the same thing. I think the idea that it's relay based is splitting hairs for people, even the people that are willing to try new platforms.

Real.

what did u expect?

Because the Nostr user experience and content is currently Trash compared to Mastodon, Fediverse, and X

Aside from network effect, I think these complaints summarize it. All highly addressable.

Purely network reach & the "top articles" feature. If not for that I'd have no reason to be over there. And the downsides are quickly reaching a point where they outweigh the benefits.

i think it boils down essentially to lack of notable people on here like celebrities and more famous creator , lack of drama like on x and a bunch of other stuff that nostr dosent have quite yet

1. Nostr image display is very slow. 2. Creator's content reach rate is too low, no one reads the content. 3. Relay settings are too complicated. 4. Complicated installation of various applications. Initial use is very complicated, just how to download from Github, how to install Primal? I don't even know how to install Primal, every application has to go to Github, why don't they provide downloads on the main Nostr site? 5. There are too many spam users, we suggest that we can limit the number of posts per account per day, and if it exceeds the limit, you have to pay BTC 10 Sat to post, so that users can set whether they have to pay BTC to leave a comment or not. Can be modeled after Odysee posting content to pay LBC (no LBC people can get LBC through the site's viewing tasks), users can also set the message to pay, the proceeds go to the user, this can prevent many Spam users! 6. not as good as Hive or other sites that provide revenue for posting.

Looks like most just don't like bitcoiners. Fair enough, but that will change once other communities find it.

Tried to read responses (no X account myself)... couldn't even do that. Walled garden piece of crap. Glad I'm here not there.

Ideologically, nostr is superior. Most people aren't concerned with ideological superiority. They just want a lot of memes.

My sense is those people will then unfortunately go to Threads or some other platform that uses them rather than serves them.

I was asked by some friends about friend.tech recentlly more instead of X The way friend.tech is designed for incentive model is so ponzi and thats why people are crazy to it in a short time. View quoted note →

I think #nostr primary pool of defectors could be Mastodon, not X, because I'm sure there are lots of people on Mastodon who are ready to try something new regarding social media, and usually are discontent because of limiting nature of Mastodon.

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A vote was conducted by Japanese individuals. Q: Where will you go when X is over? The result is that ［Bluesky］ is more popular than Nostr.

The whole webpage is stuck and unresponsive. Your dream is beautiful, but reality is so cruel.

Aristotle’s “natural slave” hypothesis?

The Nostr clients need to be better. On Nostr I have trouble finding out who commented on my post and who liked my post. Nostr clients need a notification button like X has.

Really? 😆

Because X doesn't log in like this. (Snort social page ) X also helps publicize my posts and keyword searches my content!