knowing that you receive a message but also on the existence
of a shared symbolic system which allows me to know how
you understand it
even if nostr is obvious to me as the right solution, if it's not common knowledge, then it severely restricts its possible reach when trying to communicate it with people since they don't have the language to relay it to others. its not memetic. it doesn't exist in peoples brains like email does.
maybe we need superbowl ads lol
quotingdusting off an old book on the shelf i never finished https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_Ritual
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nostr's problem is that it's not common knowledge. if it was then its applications would be obvious to a lot more people