These alternatives must be taken seriously as real products, not weekend experiments. While any project can start as a one-person exploration, achieving mass adoption requires committed teams treating this as professional work.
That means proper design, user research, maintenance commitments, and sustainable funding models. A half-finished Git forge or buggy event platform reinforces the "Nostr isn't ready" narrative.
We need builders willing to form teams, dedicate real time, and ship products that compete on quality with centralized alternatives - not just "good enough for Nostr users". The goal is products normal people choose because they're better, not because they're ideologically aligned.