plasticlove on Nostr: if atproto can manage to get 40 million users nostr really shouldn't be struggling ...

if atproto can manage to get 40 million users nostr really shouldn't be struggling

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The “people are too dumb for Nostr” stuff is such a weird form of defeatism.

People in the 90s and early 2000s went from pen and paper to using computers and the internet with UX that was objectively way worse than what we have today. They learned to type in website addresses manually, create email accounts, join forums, remember passwords, download random files, troubleshoot internet connections, and navigate systems that were incredibly unintuitive. Did I mention Napster?

None of that was natural. People learned because it was useful.

Now somehow we’re supposed to believe modern humans are incapable of understanding portable identity or signing into apps differently??!

Come on.

The problem is not that people are dumb. The problem is that the UX is still rough, onboarding is fragmented, there are too many purity tests, and people treat friction like it’s a moral virtue instead of a design problem.

Most people using the internet never understood what was happening underneath it all. They just needed something useful that worked.

…and turns out most people (especially young people) secretly HATED snail mail, phone books, paper maps, staples, paperclips… just like today they hate Alexa and Siri and data leaks and being spied on and being manipulated and managing 14 social channels.

So how about let’s fucking stop making excuses and get to it?

Oh and GM PV good people