So, this is interesting. I have multiple posts going back over a month or more that I made via nostr:npub1nz64zngcqm8vj8nhrdkcjpfwn2rcaqysnxec88tqfclp5afrpglsqm0w5y that have never shown up in nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg. Also, I was receiving zaps that I couldn't find the origin of. Opened Amethyst - a whole bunch of notifications on zaps, likes and comments, none of it ever showed up in Primal. It was similar with some stuff going Primal -> Amethyst.

I've been sitting on my username over on Bluesky with 2 followers for 8 months. In the last week that's ballooned to 100+ followers, all of them music friends/colleagues, fleeing the X dumpster fire. What most of them seem to want is an *old* twitter replacement, that simply works and has their tribe and connections, whichI totally get.

Even though I'm extolling the virtues of nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg over there, realistically, Nostr itself just isn't ready yet. These are working, professional musicians/songwriters, not developers or tech geeks. They don't have the time or brain space for "relays" and "nips". And I suspect that's the case for many fleeing X.

I think nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z might be right; pushing apps instead of protocols might be the way. Abstract the backend away, unless you actively want to tinker. But if a bunch of your posts, likes, comments and zaps aren't populating across those apps, that's a UX nightmare that will drive users away.

At some point, this stuff with smooth out, but we're absolutely not there yet.