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@ Silberengel
2025-05-11 06:51:18
You shouldn't need to understand it, is the thing.
What really helps is having clients aimed at onboarding different audiences, with different community relays as default, so that Nostr is really just used as a communications protocol, rather than as the product. The product is the app+relay combination that they are using, and the product is what uses Nostr, not the user.
Once they've gotten used to Nostr, then they can start adding in more relays and using other clients, and etc. The first one they use is very important, tho, I think.
It's essential to just acknowledge that Primal is a bitcoin community app, but that anyone can use it because you can de-bitcoinify it a bit with your user settings. But onboarding absolutely everyone to a Bitcoin community app is not ideal.
Also, many Bitcoiners are fickle users, as they surge in and out dramatically, with swings in price or some shitstorm. So, users who arrive when the Bitcoiners are all here, might have a positive experience, and then the Bitcoiners all migrate back to X, and the feeds suddenly go ded. That's why we need more users who aren't just here to talk about Bitcoin stuff, so that usage is more steady and the biggest npubs don't ghost for weeks or months at a time.
All of that said, we're slowly getting more apps tailored to the wider public, but it's hard to compete with the marketing power Jack, Odell, Gigi, etc. If they don't promote it, it doesn't exist, basically, unless the dev themselves has 50k+ followers (which is usually only the case if they've been here since Day 1).