I appreciate your insights here, and all throughout this thread, sincerely.
I understand all the ways you described but all of them require the user to pay here and there and who knows where else. And I get that's the "price" of an awesome protocol like Nostr, but I don't think normies are even close to adopting this mindset when it comes to paying directly for various apps and services, etc. Or perhaps at this point most may never adopt that mindset because they just don't have to - they can stick with trad apps, etc.
So with the current state of monetizing Nostr I guess only hardcore believers are going to participate. And it seems most nostriches are OK with this (see Will's comment re grassroots). So people like me who want to see Nostr succeed and perform at a much higher level, or even a moderate level, have to just wait around and see what happens.
Well, I have some wilder ideas to grow Nostr but they require money andanpower that I don't have, oh well.
Cheers bro
Fractal Bitcoin
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2025-04-02 00:14:08
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