Comment on [Announcement] Migrating away from lemmy.
g2devi@feddit.nl 1 week ago
Nostr is fine, but it’s really a twitter competitor and not really a reddit competitor like lemmy is. The top 20 hashtags are dominated by bitcoin, nostr, and photography/offgrid living, so it’s not for normies. Most XMR posts have comments from bitcoiners and BTC vs XMR threads dominate so nostr is something I occassionally follow but get bored with all the repetitive arguments and little information that I wouldn’t also find on Matrix.
Matrix and SimpleX are where Monero has a real community with real forums on important topics and it is normie friendly even if normies don’t tend to go there unless they’ve already convinced themselves that Monero is valuable.
Twitter apparently has a good monero community although I don’t know anything about it since I’ve never gotten or want a twitter account and it’s closed up so I can’t see it.
That leaves Reddit as the place normies would go to and discover XMR. If the lemmy instance disappears, then reddit and twitter are the only mainstream XMR instances out there.
If no-one wants to help, then I think we all understand that the burden really should be just on one volunteer and it’s entirely reasonable to shut it down. But I do challenge the “your entire online presence when the instance goes down” statement since monero.town was still visible on lemmy sites like feddit.nl due to caching. Similarly sharding and co-hosting exists for lemmy so it is possible to make monero.town more resilient if people are willing to step up. Taking over all of monero.town is a huge burden but dividing up the work and taking a tenth of it (which can be given up if life gets in the way and returned to when it doesn’t) is much less of a burden.
WishfulAlbatross@monero.town 1 week ago
There is nothing inherent about Nostr itself that makes it only a Twitter competitor. Nostr is just a protocol. The clients can behave and look however you want them to. There are already Reddit-like clients for Nostr (Satellite.earth, chorus.community, oddbean) and even encrypted messengers built on it (0xChat, Keychat, White Noise, etc)
g2devi@feddit.nl 1 week ago
Yes but Nostr is mostly a maxi community which is very niche compared to lemmy. These smaller Reddit-like clients are every more niche. Since most of those forums are incompatible since there isn’t a standard, that’s even more of a niche. At that point, what’s the point? Matrix and SimpleX might be niche but they have a large Monero communities. Reddit and X have large communities that don’t care about being managed. Nostr currently has a twitter like community for people that like interacting with maxis. Lemmy had a place for reddit refugees who still liked the concept of reddit where different communities could stumble on each other.