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Haha, that's normal. The taste might seem a little different. It took me years to get used to it. We have plenty of those cups at home. Every Turkish house has them 😅

2026-06-04 08:51:50 UTC

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I love Turkish coffee.

2026-06-03 19:07:55 UTC

Good day to all of you, conscious people who support decentralized social media.

2026-06-03 19:05:37 UTC

What is the total volume of Bitcoin traded on Nostr? I need a graph like that.

2026-06-03 05:16:39 UTC

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Social media competition is fierce. But we must use it persistently. This place belongs to us.
#nevent1q…v3hk

2026-06-03 05:15:05 UTC

But we need support Decentralization

2026-06-02 05:27:51 UTC

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Nice

2026-06-01 15:29:15 UTC

Minimax m3 is going to be open source. And it gives very good benchmarks. Will it be able to catch up to Opus? I don't know.

2026-05-29 12:12:25 UTC

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The best solution

2026-05-29 03:41:02 UTC

My motivation for Nostr has dropped over the last 3 days, guys. There's unlimited content on other social media platforms. How are we going to beat them? 😔

2026-05-26 14:34:07 UTC

What are the biggest advantages of people using Nostr? Why should they use it?

2026-05-26 09:31:55 UTC

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They can go fuck themselves. Sons of bitches.

2026-05-26 09:29:54 UTC

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Wow. I love open source llm

2026-05-26 09:28:27 UTC

Yesterday, Nostr daily active users were 27,573 😎📈. Up +17.1% from yesterday, trend is rising 🚀
https://blossom.primal.net/dbe638cf03eeea57132e3741a53fbcf63f56b90f7e998c12e11bf12f20d387c4.png

2026-05-24 18:33:34 UTC

The NOSTR community is an amazing community. I really like it. If we grow this community, the world will change and become decentralized.

2026-05-24 18:32:08 UTC

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Zapstore should be the app store for open-source mobile operating systems.

2026-05-24 12:49:46 UTC

If a regular user downloads a Nostr app and uses it for 1 minute, they'll delete it straight away. Regular users don't use a social media platform with this kind of friction. But of course, we're not normal 😅

2026-05-24 12:44:09 UTC

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Problems occur even when the internet connection is good. You shouldn't be sure. Right now my internet is bad and I had to tap the button 4 times to send a reply. Closing and reopening the app fixed it.

2026-05-24 12:35:13 UTC

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I use Primal. But the content recommendation algorithm across Nostr is really bad. It's insufficient for a normal user experience. Yes, I know those tabs but they're not enough. It's a time-based post algorithm. We can work with it, but regular users don't like that kind of thing.

2026-05-24 12:24:41 UTC

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There are some serious problems.

2026-05-24 12:22:03 UTC

When the internet is bad, Primal's features are severely affected. Why?

2026-05-24 12:20:12 UTC

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I don't know. You can check from this site : https://nostrarchives.com/analytics
But there are too many clients. Users are fragmented and the content recommendation algorithms are very poor. Most people's posts don't show up in our feeds

2026-05-24 12:07:23 UTC

I don't use apps that don't have blockchain features. 😏

2026-05-24 11:01:34 UTC

Nostr Game Store When?😅

2026-05-24 10:51:19 UTC

Decentralized social media should be governed by voting. You realize that, right? I'm talking about Dao.

2026-05-24 09:18:22 UTC

I'm trying to reply in Primal, but sometimes it doesn't send.

2026-05-24 09:17:42 UTC

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Wow nice

2026-05-24 06:21:16 UTC

Yesterday, Nostr daily active users were 30,281 🎉😎. Up +5.4%, trend is going up 🚀
https://blossom.primal.net/4960985cd9f82ff8231e1d9039a25a33f98ef9ac1a53653a307c7fbf6e6ee960.png

2026-05-23 18:46:31 UTC

We need to decentralize the entire world.

2026-05-23 14:57:13 UTC

I can't undo the like I gave on Primal. Is this a joke?

2026-05-23 14:26:18 UTC

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😅😅

2026-05-22 12:36:50 UTC

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But I guess it's not open source

2026-05-22 10:53:47 UTC

Maintaining a relationship is not exempt from the laws of physics:
The preservation of love depends on the system being nourished by a constant and "costly" input of energy (effort) from the outside.
https://blossom.primal.net/296d4fc1fa2a42979b2f35c3736ebff8f322ece4f40981e726a9ebf198112f88.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/c4c94ccc700efb8fe6c88fda31d2b0d151a2bafddeacfbdfe0c561e9ff5cebd5.jpg

2026-05-22 10:15:07 UTC

Daytraders in 1792.
Where it all started.
https://blossom.primal.net/1debf444f8de0c45c8e94d3ed7e3f24fbaa7a15ac5066f93543cada7aa0fe8e6.jpg

2026-05-22 10:04:12 UTC

Anyone else has a yahoo id ?
https://blossom.primal.net/bb3cc5cf383a03c5a5e392ebd65e125885bdc79cf76cab69aedc7b193e92f034.jpg

2026-05-22 06:50:55 UTC

Yesterday, 26972 people entered Nostr. The trend has turned upwards.
https://blossom.primal.net/7ca2d7ab93a6f17e5c8daa3cb476cb9e2f251cd0f792f169fda5721dd391516c.jpg

2026-05-21 12:59:19 UTC

I installed LineageOS on my old Android 9 phone. Now it’s Android 15. And the performance has improved insanely. Software really changes a lot.

2026-05-21 12:55:56 UTC

**Here are targeted, actionable suggestions to attract more users to Nostr**, drawn from community discussions, UX research, growth analyses, and protocol ecosystem insights as of 2026. Nostr's growth has faced challenges like stalled activity, high churn, and competition from polished centralized platforms, despite strong tech foundations.
### 1. Dramatically Simplify Onboarding and First-Run Experience
- Implement **progressive disclosure** and **friction laddering**: Allow browsing content (e.g., a curated "For You" or popular feed) with zero commitment before requiring any signup or key generation. Reach "time-to-first-value" (seeing engaging content or a successful first post) in under 2 minutes.
- Abstract complexity: Use temporary/burner keys initially, sensible defaults for relays (via NIP-65), and hide technical terms like npub/nsec or relay URLs until later. Provide clear backups, education, and recovery options (e.g., via NIP-46 signers or multi-device support).
- Offer guest modes, one-click flows, and contextual tooltips. Some clients have explored removing the full "create account" step for initial exploration.
### 2. Improve Content Discovery and Feed Quality
- Build better algorithms and personalized feeds that blend followed content with interest-based recommendations (selected during lightweight onboarding). Reduce empty feed syndrome.
- Enhance search, trending topics, and cross-relay discovery. Leverage web-of-trust (WoT) for quality filtering and spam reduction without central moderation.
- Prioritize high-quality, niche, or vertical content (e.g., long-form, events, media) to create "pull" rather than forcing users to post immediately.
### 3. Adopt "Come for the Tool, Stay for the Network" Strategy
- Develop or highlight **useful standalone tools** built on Nostr (e.g., events/calendars, marketplaces, maps with social recommendations, decentralized Git, AI integrations, private messaging/groups, or file sharing) that provide immediate utility even without a large social graph. Users discover the network organically.
- Examples: Location-based discovery ("which friends recommend this place?"), event tools, or creator monetization beyond basic zaps. This mirrors successes like Instagram (filters first) or Dropbox.
### 4. Leverage Bitcoin/Lightning Integration for Monetization and Virality
- Make **Zaps** and Lightning payments seamless, prominent, and rewarding (e.g., instant tips, paid content, escrows). Position Nostr as a way to earn/spend Bitcoin directly, appealing to Bitcoiners and creating economic incentives.
- Build circular economies: Reward creators, coordinate decentralized projects, or enable micropayments that feel native and fun. Nostr can onboard more people to Bitcoin than many other methods.
### 5. Target Niches and Leverage Existing Communities
- Double down on Bitcoin, privacy, freedom-tech, and censorship-resistant audiences, then expand to adjacent groups (creators, developers, event organizers). Use invite-only or waitlist tactics for high-signal early growth in new verticals.
- Encourage big creators and influencers to cross-post or migrate audiences with easy tools. A few high-profile moves could trigger a "suddenly" moment.
### 6. Polish Clients and Ecosystem-Wide UX
- Invest in mobile/desktop parity, multi-language support, accessibility, and reliable performance. Focus on a few flagship clients excelling at specific experiences rather than fragmented efforts.
- Improve relay reliability, spam/moderation tools, and search. Fund grants for high-impact UX, onboarding wizards, and discovery features.
### 7. Marketing, Education, and Interoperability
- Create clear educational resources, migration tools from X/Bluesky/etc., and demo content showing real value (e.g., "post once, own it everywhere").
- Pursue cross-protocol bridges and integrations (DIDs, other decentralized stacks) for easier entry.
- Community-driven campaigns, AMAs, events, and word-of-mouth in Bitcoin circles. Highlight censorship resistance and sovereignty when relevant, but lead with utility and fun.
### 8. Sustainability and Incentives
- Support relay economics (micropayments, premium features) to ensure a robust, always-on network.
- Run grants/funding for user acquisition experiments, referral programs, and novel apps.
**Key Principle**: Nostr wins on sovereignty and extensibility ("Notes and Other Stuff"), not by directly copying Twitter. Focus on **reducing friction**, **delivering immediate value**, and **building useful tools** that make the network effect a pleasant side effect. Growth has been niche so far—breaking out requires mainstream-friendly entry points while preserving decentralization.
Check resources like nostr-ux.com patterns, NIPs repo, and OpenSats grants for ongoing work. The ecosystem is evolving quickly—client improvements and novel use cases are the biggest levers right now.

2026-05-21 10:37:17 UTC

Nostr's content recommendation system is terrible. Good content doesn't get highlighted. It's impossible for it to grow like this.

2026-05-21 06:11:02 UTC

BREAKING: Japan will recognize foreign crypto stablecoins as legal payment methods starting June 1.
The world’s 4th largest economy just legalized stablecoins.

2026-05-21 06:08:23 UTC

$NVDA
NVIDIA Q1 FY27 (April quarter).
• Revenue +85% Y/Y to $81.6B ($2.6B beat).
• Operating margin 66% (+16pp Y/Y).
• Non-GAAP EPS $1.87 ($0.10 beat).
Q2 FY27 guidance:
• Revenue $91.0B ($3.0B beat).
https://blossom.primal.net/85a9ff32eae237cb7cef43e1e1def4aa48a0accb643e3795865cdca27169373e.jpg

2026-05-21 05:11:07 UTC

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😅😅

2026-05-20 18:30:59 UTC

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When NostrGit?
#nevent1q…wy2r

2026-05-20 12:13:41 UTC

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Haha, I noticed that too

2026-05-20 01:50:25 UTC

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That's exactly what I was looking for. You're amazing!

2026-05-20 00:59:46 UTC

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That's great. There should be a weekly list of the top Zap winners or something.

2026-05-20 00:46:51 UTC

JUST IN: OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic

2026-05-20 00:44:44 UTC

Gemini 3.5 Flash has landed #9 for Text and Code Arena: Frontend.
Code Arena: Frontend evaluates models on agentic frontend coding tasks from real users building apps and websites (HTML and React). Scoring 1507, this is a significant +70 point improvement over Gemini-3 Flash. Sub-category highlights:
- #7 Content Creation Tools
- #8 Gaming
- #8 Consumer Product
- #9 Data & Analytics
- #10 Reference-Based Design
In Text Arena: #9 overall. Gemini 3.5 Flash also moves the price–performance frontier as the new top Arena score in its price tier.
https://blossom.primal.net/0327eb9ce6d2cef4773c8e2265460fe0c241549987b3cf68c6defbcdf8a7bb1d.png

2026-05-20 00:41:51 UTC

OnlyFans is the most revenue-efficient company in the world 🚨
$NVDA
needs to step it up 😂
https://blossom.primal.net/9478cedd60e07016194813305e6efc1649ec82c138e3db13a8a1be00b26d4f65.jpg

2026-05-19 16:01:30 UTC

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Perfect

2026-05-19 14:47:04 UTC

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That's how all of Nostr is

2026-05-19 14:42:50 UTC

On Nostr, I would prefer to see one perfectly functioning TikTok, one Instagram, and one Twitter clone instead of 10 different Twitters.

2026-05-19 14:10:31 UTC

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It's very rough, slow, and keeps getting stuck.

2026-05-19 12:32:28 UTC

Nostr's Biggest Problem Isn't Keys. It's Speed.
Everyone talks about the learning curve — seed phrases, key management, finding clients. But once you're past that, a quieter problem hits you immediately: everything feels slow.
Posting lags. Notifications arrive late or out of order. Feeds refresh sluggishly. If you're coming from Twitter or any mainstream social app, the friction is hard to ignore.
This isn't a bug. It's architecture.
Why Nostr Is Slow by Design
On Twitter, when you post something, it goes to one place — a massive, optimized server that processes it instantly and pushes it to your followers. There's a single source of truth, and it's engineered for speed at scale.
Nostr has no such server. When you post, your client pushes your event to every relay you're connected to, one by one, over WebSocket connections. When you check notifications, your client opens concurrent streams to multiple relays simultaneously, pulling events and deduplicating them in real time. Every action that takes one network round-trip on Twitter takes N round-trips on Nostr.
Add to this the fact that most major relays are located in the US or Western Europe. If you're connecting from Turkey, Southeast Asia, or anywhere outside those hubs, you're adding geographic latency on top of the architectural overhead. There's no CDN layer, no edge caching, no pre-computed feed waiting for you.
The slowness is the price of censorship resistance. Your data lives on relays you choose, not on a platform that can delete you. That's a real and meaningful tradeoff — but it needs to be named honestly, especially when we're trying to bring regular users onto the protocol.
Can It Be Fixed?
Yes. And the tools already exist.
The first piece is the Outbox Model (NIP-65). Instead of every client blasting events to every relay and hoping for the best, users publish which relays they write to. Clients then fetch from the right relay for each person, rather than polling everything everywhere. This alone cuts redundant traffic significantly and is probably the single most impactful improvement available today. Adoption is still incomplete, but it's growing.
The second piece is indexer and caching layers. This is where it gets philosophically interesting. A server that ingests Nostr events, indexes them, and serves pre-built feeds via API can make the experience feel as fast as any centralized app. Primal does exactly this. It breaks the pure relay model, but here's the key insight: your data remains portable. Even if Primal's cache disappears tomorrow, your events still live on your relays and any other client can read them. The indexer optimizes reads — it doesn't own your identity or your social graph.
This is the distinction that matters: portability is not the same as decentralization at runtime. A fast Nostr client backed by a caching server is still fundamentally different from Twitter, because you can leave. You can take your follows, your notes, your identity — and move to any other client. That's impossible on any centralized platform.
What Regular Users Actually Need
Regular users will not wait. They have no patience for relay philosophy, and they shouldn't need to. If the experience is slower than what they're used to, they leave. This is the largest real adoption blocker Nostr faces right now — not keys, not complexity, but perceived performance.
The path forward is clear even if it makes some people uncomfortable:
Broader NIP-65 adoption so clients fetch smarter, not harder
More geographically distributed relay infrastructure — there are almost no relays serving the Middle East, Africa, or Southeast Asia
Clients that use intelligent relay selection and connection pooling
Indexer layers that make feeds feel instant, without compromising data portability
Nostr doesn't have to choose between speed and sovereignty. It can have both — but only if the ecosystem builds the middle layer that bridges them.
The protocol is sound. The values are right. The infrastructure just needs to catch up.

2026-05-19 12:00:14 UTC

Year founded:
🇺🇸 Procter & Gamble (P&G): 1837
🇩🇪 Siemens: 1847
🇺🇸 Pfizer: 1849
🇩🇪 Bayer: 1863
🇫🇮 Nokia: 1865
🇬🇧 HSBC: 1865
🇨🇭 Nestlé: 1866
🇮🇳 Tata Group: 1868
🇯🇵 Mitsubishi: 1870
🇯🇵 Toshiba: 1875
🇺🇸 Chevron: 1879
🇯🇵 Nintendo: 1885
🇺🇸 Coca-Cola: 1886
🇺🇸 Johnson & Johnson: 1886
🇺🇸 General Electric (GE): 1892
🇺🇸 The Coca-Cola Company: 1892
🇺🇸 PepsiCo: 1898
🇺🇸 Ford: 1903
🇳🇱 Shell: 1907
🇺🇸 General Motors (GM): 1908
🇫🇷 L'Oréal: 1909
🇺🇸 IBM: 1911
🇺🇸 Boeing: 1916
🇺🇸 The Walt Disney Company: 1923
🇩🇪 Mercedes-Benz: 1926
🇺🇸 Motorola: 1928
🇳🇱 Unilever: 1929
🇯🇵 Nissan: 1933
🇯🇵 Toyota: 1937
🇩🇪 Volkswagen: 1937
🇰🇷 Samsung: 1938
🇺🇸 HP: 1939
🇺🇸 McDonald's: 1940
🇮🇳 Mahindra & Mahindra: 1945
🇮🇳 Wipro: 1945
🇯🇵 Sony: 1946
🇯🇵 Honda: 1948
🇺🇸 Walmart: 1962
🇺🇸 Nike: 1964
🇮🇳 Reliance Industries: 1966
🇺🇸 Intel: 1968
🇺🇸 Microsoft: 1975
🇺🇸 Apple: 1976
🇺🇸 Oracle Corporation: 1977
🇮🇳 Infosys: 1981
🇺🇸 Adobe Inc.: 1982
🇺🇸 Dell: 1984
🇺🇸 Cisco: 1984
🇺🇸 Nvidia: 1993
🇺🇸 Amazon: 1994
🇺🇸 Netflix: 1997
🇺🇸 Google: 1998
🇨🇳 Alibaba Group: 1999
🇺🇸 Salesforce: 1999
🇺🇸 Tesla: 2003
🇺🇸 Facebook: 2004
🇺🇸 Twitter: 2006
🇺🇸 Airbnb: 2008
🇺🇸 Uber: 2009
🇺🇸 Zoom: 2011
🇺🇸 Coinbase: 2012
🇨🇳 TikTok: 2016

2026-05-19 11:53:02 UTC

Nostr urgently needs a TikTok and Instagram. Instead of ten identical apps, can't anyone think of making just these two?

2026-05-19 10:39:39 UTC

🇪🇺 MINIMUM WAGES IN EUROPE 2026
Gross Monthly (in €) – Full-time workers
HIGHEST – Above €1,500
🇱🇺 Luxembourg – €2,704
🇮🇪 Ireland – €2,391
🇩🇪 Germany – €2,343
🇳🇱 Netherlands – €2,295
🇧🇪 Belgium – €2,112
🇫🇷 France – €1,823
MIDDLE – €1,000 to €1,500
🇪🇸 Spain – €1,381
🇸🇮 Slovenia – €1,278
🇱🇹 Lithuania – €1,153
🇵🇱 Poland – €1,139
🇨🇾 Cyprus – €1,088
🇵🇹 Portugal – €1,073
🇭🇷 Croatia – €1,050
🇬🇷 Greece – €1,027
LOWEST – Below €1,000
🇲🇹 Malta – €994
🇨🇿 Czechia – €924
🇸🇰 Slovakia – €915
🇪🇪 Estonia – €886
🇭🇺 Hungary – €838
🇷🇴 Romania – €795
🇱🇻 Latvia – €780
🇧🇬 Bulgaria – €620
NO NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇮🇹 Italy
🇦🇹 Austria
🇫🇮 Finland
🇸🇪 Sweden
Data as of January 2026 | Source: European Commission & Eurofound

2026-05-19 10:35:19 UTC

The World’s Most Popular Social Media Platforms in 2026 (Monthly Active Users)
Facebook — 3.1B
WhatsApp — 3B
Instagram — 3B
YouTube — 2.5B
TikTok — 2B
WeChat — 1.4B
Messenger — 1B
Telegram — 1B
Snapchat — 900M
Reddit — 850M
Douyin (抖音) — 755M
X — 650M
Pinterest — 578M
Threads — 400M
LinkedIn — 310M
Source: Salesforce

2026-05-19 06:20:26 UTC

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Perfect

2026-05-18 22:55:06 UTC

I moved the 1-hour trending topics to the top on Primal, and it's much better now. But this content recommendation system should be like those on other networks.
https://blossom.primal.net/1ad59a0307aad53352003700e5f42104cbb35b8fd9e6446341b283391d9e2956.png

2026-05-18 22:31:24 UTC

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👏👏👏

2026-05-18 22:30:42 UTC

When is Debian-based NostrOs coming out? NostrOs Mobile. Open source and blockchain integrated.

2026-05-18 21:52:57 UTC

How did Bluesky attract so many users, and what can we do better?

2026-05-18 21:44:55 UTC

@nprofile…9zuh I tried Shosho today. I think it's extremely good and has potential for improvement. Especially, TikTok Live features could be added. Bitcoin Zap rewards and animations could be created.

2026-05-18 21:37:45 UTC

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So we can say that the NOSTR MAP is coming 😅

2026-05-18 21:29:58 UTC

Nostr could be a place where decentralization unites the entire world. We have many programmers who can make this happen.
But these apps need to generate revenue. We can't do that without an economy.

2026-05-18 21:26:33 UTC

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This guy needs to open a Nostr account and come here 😅

2026-05-18 21:25:11 UTC

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We need to take over social media first 😅

2026-05-18 21:22:45 UTC

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Nostr is a true software paradise. It will be amazing when millions of people come here 😍
#nevent1q…ulvt

2026-05-18 21:21:30 UTC

Is interaction on Nostr increasing, or is it just me? Because I'm liking everything I see 😅