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On-boarding people to Nostr now is like: Well, you can use Amethyst, which by now is so complicated only devs can enjoy it but still you won't be able to tag a profile in a note and have to copy the npub over from another app, like Primal! ...which can't do the most basic things like blocking accounts on this bot infested protocol of ours. Oryou get an iPhone to install Damus which they say is slick but that's of course only to be loved by the guys locked in the Apple panopticon but with just some hacky workarounds you get the cool functions too. Then there are web clients that require browser extensions for the login, which of course don't work on your smartphone. Sometimes you see NIP or other Lingua Nostr on options and buttons, then you just have to research on github & wiki do learn what it is or better not click it.... But yeah. Welcome to Event no found.

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↩ replying to gladstein
Not for social media and social media apps though. I am aware that a social media PROTOCOL is in its infancy. I'm talking about UX -of Android Nostr clients specifically but the topic seems to have struck a larger nerve. Billions have been invested, two decades of research and experiences amassed, trillions of human interactions analysed to create the perfect apps. This wheel is round and won't get any rounder. There is nothing wrong about standing on the shoulders of giants and take all what is good today with social media to enhance the social protocol of tomorrow.
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↩ replying to ABH3PO
Nobody is mislead, everyone reading this today knows the struggle: I have to download Firefox, and an extension for it, create an nsec (somewhere) and copy it into the extension, open the nostr clients website, add my relays and keep signing in each time Firefox hibernates or clears cookies/caches? I won't get notifications either. See, I talked about the "on boarding on Android" experience and you have proven my point. Amethyst or Primal are the two best choices now, I speak about their UX. Webclients on phones are silly.
↩ replying to Rico
"Then there are web clients that require browser extensions for the login, which of course don't work on your smartphone". Sounds pretty misleading to me, given what you just said. See I get your point, I just don't want somebody reading your note to think that browser extensions don't work on phone since IMO they are the superior method for login compared to pasting your nsec in an app.
Solution is simple: don't onboard. Build it and they will come. They will RTFM and they will figure it out.
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On-boarding people to Nostr now is like: Well, you can use Amethyst, which by now is so complicated only devs can enjoy it but still you won't be able to tag a profile in a note and have to copy the npub over from another app, like Primal! ...which can't do the most basic things like blocking accounts on this bot infested protocol of ours. Oryou get an iPhone to install Damus which they say is slick but that's of course only to be loved by the guys locked in the Apple panopticon but with just some hacky workarounds you get the cool functions too. Then there are web clients that require browser extensions for the login, which of course don't work on your smartphone. Sometimes you see NIP or other Lingua Nostr on options and buttons, then you just have to research on github & wiki do learn what it is or better not click it.... But yeah. Welcome to Event no found.
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↩ replying to npub1jhgm...8u8c
This is what my search is looking like. Not working, this @Uncle Swan guy sometimes shows up in my search and sometimes not. Same for @olli >> wasn't tagged just now. Further: I have to set up a specific search relay now? And this banner now shows up on every feature, requesting a different sort of relay? I have written about the bad on boarding experience to Nostr on Android, this is what I mean. Amethyst is not for on boarding. While Primal is a Bitcoin wallet with social media functions. And for web clients one needs Firefox with extensions that ask for credentials in random intervals (battery saved, cookies cleaned, auto log out...) and send no notifications.
Well... I onboarded then made a rookie mistake (not your keys... not your nostr LOL) but I'm back at the beginning again. Yes it will be a while.... but like anything... those that are in early....well you know how it goes.