“they would have already.”

Not necessarily… 🙏

Most haven’t heard of Nostr, or had a bad experience due to Nostr lacking algorithms and speed (tons of missing posts/client glitches/etc).

It’s nowhere near as advanced as Twitter yet. Once it is, then the price for censorship resistance might not require such a steep cost.

Right now the switching costs are too high: you lose your network and lose many features of Twitter. Reverse-chronological feed with missing notes is primitive compared to X and what comes next.

Once Nostr has all the features normal Twitter has, including consistent speed and feed algorithms, then the true test begins…