Unpopular opinion:

Treating Nostr as a collection of "Nostr" clients that talk to each other, rather than a communication protocol that allows any clients to talk to each other, is holding back adoption because you are trying to force users to immediately change interfaces and workflows, instead of just co-opting the data transfers on the backend.

If you get people moving their data over Nostr, then you can create new Nostr-native clients to handle that data in some novel way, to add value.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

Get the data first.

Integrate, then build.

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This is why I love what Fountain is doing with their beta build, integrating the data already available to them via the Nostr protocol in a way that adds value to the users of their app and encouraging existing users to interact with and add to that data.

If you look at what Matrix and Fediverse do, they integrate everywhere they can. They're ubiquitous.

Exactly, and there is no reason the same couldn't be the case with Nostr for any type of client that can be imagined, pulling from the protocol only the data that would be useful in their context.

Like, why not generate Twitter posts from Nostr kind 01 notes? Substack articles from long-form?

I don't see any reason why we wouldn't start seeing more and more of this in the near future as these currently siloed platforms begin to realize there is nothing stopping them from doing this. They have every incentive to just start showing Nostr notes in their own clients. It does nothing to hurt them, and only enriches their existing content. It also helps keep people from leaving their app to go to one specifically built for Nostr.

Oh, Brazil is trying to bully X into censoring posts? Fine. Anyone from Brazil is no longer posting to X, but to a Nostr relay, and X just displays the notes, but doesn't have any control over them. Just like with all the other notes X is displaying from Nostr without hosting them on its own servers.

It's just a matter of that concept clicking in the brains of those at the wheel for those platforms.

Nostr suffers from a chronic case of Not-invented-here syndrome (NIH).

Wordpress. Also October CMS.

Man... Wordpress is like half of Internet pages. Imagine them all with zaps Nostr comments.

Yes agreed any CMS. Wordpress is the biggy.

We run an October CMS site, but I've had Wordpress, before. Lots of PHP and MySQL, and that's more my scene.