[sak5sk]

Nostr user here, absolutely love everything I am seeing. I think Nostr is deeply misunderstood by onlookers and I'd like to share a few things that may help clear things up:

1. Nostr is not a social network - it's a protocol on top of many social networks can be built. 2. Nostr is not limited to the social use cases - and I think that is the killer advantage here. With Nostr, you can integrate various other types of apps to facilitate not only chat but content distribution AND payments. One click payments with zaps. 3. Zaps are going to open up a floodgate of use cases that have a significant advantage over legacy ways of doing things. For example: if you have a music app with multiple recording artists, any time someone zaps or streams their song, all artists involved could get paid instantly. 4. Nostr is a discovery powerhouse that enables content to be easily discovered across platforms without gatekeeping. For creators this is great news because they can just publish in one place and be in all (willingly) participating clients/apps. This alone is a huge development that I don't think too many are grasping just yet.

Yes, it is still clunky at times, but the UX and UI is getting better over time. The development model makes it easy for anyone to jump in and build. You are not limited to any particular way of doing things and can create a custom experience for your audience while having access to the entirety of the protocol.

Some resources for people:

- https://www.heynostr.com/ - https://www.nostrapps.com/

[rchaud]

> Nostr is a discovery powerhouse that enables content to be easily discovered across platforms without gatekeeping. For creators this is great news because they can just publish in one place and be in all (willingly) participating clients/apps.

Beyond the marketing barf, what makes this a "discovery powerhouse"?

From the description, it doesn't sound any different from Mastodon, or having an email newsletter, or publishing your own website.

[sak5sk]

Network effects. Every new app that joins grows the network without the content creator having to do anything new.

[rchaud]

If I joined today for example, how would I come across something you posted? The user increment is +1, but that's just the potential number of people you could reach. Somebody would have to the equivalent of re-tweeting, for your content to be visible on their profile, and discoverable by others.

Is that different from say, Mastodon?

[sak5sk]

There are a few ways to find my content. 1. Follow me 2. Find my note in a hashtag / interest-based relay or in global chat (global will probably not remain for long as the network grows and it gets too noisy / spammy). You'll have interest based relays / tags, however that gets structured. Right now there are no interest-based relays that I know of (yet). 3. Via a boost (equiv. to retweet). 4. Via some sort of ranker. Some clients rank posts by activity.

In general, you have to follow people to discover content you want to see, but it's not a requirement (as outlined above). I definitely think the Nostr experience for people improves dramatically as they follow a few folks.

[7v3x3n3sem9vv]

like mastodon? from my mastodon account I can interact with pixelfed (like Instagram), peertube (like YouTube) and Lemmy (like reddit).

[sak5sk]

Sorry I am not familiar with Mastadon.

[swypych]

"1. Nostr is not a social network."

Someone should really change the marketing CTA.

"A decentralized social network with a chance of working"

I can see why people would think this.

[sak5sk]

That's the beautiful part about Nostr, anyone can create a website and "sell" it any way they like.

[Entinel]

That's not how that works though. It would be like me calling XMPP a cryptocurrency.

[sak5sk]

I couldn't stop you from calling anything anything you want

[rchaud]

any way they like...as long as it's in Bitcoin.

[sak5sk]

who is they and what are we talking about? like what? The payments are optional.

[Encrypt-Keeper]

That's a huge benefit over social media projects like Mastodon, which lack discovery features entirely.