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Nostr's Blueprint 4 A Bitcoin-Integrated New Internet(Bitcoin Magazine, Svetski)bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/beyond-the-feed-nostr-real-world
238 sats \ 7 comments \ @denlillaapan 5h nostr
Svetski out praising Nostr, shilling Satlantis
If, for whatever reason, the incumbent products degrade and their creator bases collapse, while Nostr apps simultaneously become 10 times better than the incumbents, then it might lead to a mass migration of creators. However, I find this highly improbable.
SWITCHING COSTS are a bitch

why so hard? why so slow?

Nostr has the potential to become the social layer of the internet and beat the incumbents at their own game, but that will take time.
It will also require the “lead bullets” approach, meaning that no one approach will be enough. Some apps will take the social angle, like Primal, Damus, etc while others, like Satlantis, will take the utility-first approach.
The beauty of Nostr is that each of these products has a common social layer and profile ID (nPub) so users can accrue benefits across the whole protocol.
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75 sats \ 6 replies \ @Scoresby 4h
Switching costs, yes, but he really nails it with that second point: in the mainstream nobody cares about censorship resistance. Nobody.
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102 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 3h
Does it matter?
To me, what matters is that those of us who do care have somewhere to go.
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69 sats \ 3 replies \ @Scoresby 2h
This is the larger question that Bitcoin wrestles with also: nostr doesn't feel like a good alternative to censorable social media if no one is using it and Bitcoin is a great escape hatch...if there are people who want it and are willing to accept it in trade. But neither nostr nor Bitcoin do us much good if most of the world is like: meh.
As to censorship resistance in general, the fewer people who are interested in it, the more the state will be able to criminalize it.
The odds are very high that kyc to use the internet is the norm in the US by 2030.
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102 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 1h
In a way, nostr is further along than bitcoin. Anyone who wants to can shift their social media use to nostr. The escape hatch is important because, regardless of how many people have already fled, it limits how hard the state can push before the censorable platforms just fail.
It really isn't the case that anyone can just switch their financial life to bitcoin. I know there are people who have gotten there, but it takes a lot of time and research and sacrifice.
This is the "Bitcoin is for anyone" vs "Bitcoin is for everyone" distinction.
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 1h
it limits how hard the state can push before the censorable platforms just fail.
I feel that we are pretty docile in the US, at least. Seems to me the state can push pretty hard on censorship before the masses will move.
It really isn't the case that anyone can just switch their financial life to bitcoin.
This is spot on. Do you think the switching cost is high enough that it will prevent general bitcoin adoption (assuming we solve some of the more difficult UX problems and the cultural gap of personal responsibility)?
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102 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 1h
Seems to me the state can push pretty hard on censorship before the masses will move.
It's not about the masses. It's about the margins.
Do you think the switching cost is high enough that it will prevent general bitcoin adoption
No, my guess is that we'll hit some critical mass of people who have a little bitcoin for some reason and then it will quickly become a ubiquitous medium of exchange.
This is an area where a very small number of us can really capitalize on the Minority Effect by just being obstinate about using bitcoin whenever possible.
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102 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 4h
I think public interest in censorship resistance peaked during the Covid lockdowns.
Now that that's over, there seems to be little interest in it.
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