corndalorian on Nostr: Joining Nostr is a bit like showing up at an event where you don’t really know ...

Joining Nostr is a bit like showing up at an event where you don’t really know anyone. If you’re willing to put yourself out there to meet people, you might actually find a few you get along with and have a good time just hanging out. If you’re not the type that is willing to put yourself out there, then you probably hope to find something interesting going on at the event: activities/games that interest you, a show/speech/concert on a stage, good food, etc. And those things need to be easy to find and easy to access. If you don’t want to put yourself out there, and if you can’t find anything happening that interests you, then you may just decide it’s not worth your time to stick around. Then you leave and go back where you know you can find those things.

Of course this all assumes the event and the various activities there exist in the first place. Some in attendance may be naive enough to think that events just put themselves on, and that organizers, vendors, artists, etc., just show up and work in perpetuity purely out of charity. Rational people know that is not how the world works. The people putting on the event, and the people putting on the shows/games/etc., all need incentive to work to put all this on for you, the consumer.

Everything has a cost, and someone has to foot the bill. Maybe it is a ticketed event and all the workers take a split at the end of the night. Maybe it’s more like a bazaar where, instead of one singular event, it’s many smaller events/vendors/artists who paid for a booth, hoping to find buyers/audiences to make their investment worthwhile. Maybe there is some philanthropic person just funding the entire thing for their own reasons, picking the winners and losers based on their own priorities. Maybe it is a mix of these and other ways of covering the costs. One thing is for certain, though. Once the incentives dry up, the money runs out and the costs can no longer be covered. The lights turn off, the vendors pack up, the music stops, the people in attendance begin to leave, and the event is over.

I don’t think it’s over for Nostr, but I do wonder right now where are the incentives for anyone trying to set up booth and put anything on here.

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Sorry now the real response: I think for a lot of people it’s easier and more addicting to just consume. Nostr involves a lot of initiative so the user can connect with people around the globe. It’s beautiful, but for my generation usually a hard thing to do.