Right now, the biggest reason people are using Nostr is to talk their way into leftover crypto.

Daddy Jack dropped some BTC, and the bottom feeders are hoping to catch spare change.

Something I discovered as a community manager long, long ago: money kills motivation for everything else.

By the way, that's also true of sex too.

I'm not against getting paid or getting laid.

It's more like if people *know* that there's a place that they're likely to get paid or laid, that's all they'll be motivated by when they visit that place.

The other factor: if you know a certain place is known as a hub for money or sex, you're unlikely to visit that place if you want to do something else.

Nobody visits a casino for its fabulous knitting circle.

Okay, fine.

Your favourite casino and strip joint has a really kicking menu. The sandwiches are utterly fantastic. You'll come back just for the cuisine.

I'll take your word for it.

But food also hits upon a primal desire. And since food can't be delivered over modems, that's a non-factor regarding online communities.

Unless, of course, you're talking about something like Yelp 😁

I have a point about Nostr!

The tech is interesting. But you can't build social media purely on tech -- you need a community.

But if they whole point of the community is to catch a few BTC, then Nostr is toast.

Yes, Nostr is just tech. It's agnostic. But that's also why, if it keeps going down this route, it will fail.

I don't necessarily want it to fail. Yet, if it's all about the money, what's the motivation to do anything else?