Best case:
Waves are already happening but you can't see them from Twitter-clone land
Average case:
Waves will hapoen but you will not see them from Twitter-clone land
Worst case:
The digital realm is a deceptional fiction and large numbers and small probabilities do not offer us what we think they do.
One of the weirdly nice things about having such a tiny budget is the lack of pressure to onboard a gazillion users to your app.
I see them all freaking out about it and I'm like LOL, chill.
Onboarding my farm village and homeschool groups to a Nostr stack would add 150 people.
Immensilly significant locally.
Not a dent from the global VC lens.
Yeah, we built the church website and it would be fun to rebuild.
I also have an idea for the diocese, as they have an antiquated system for constructing the monthly Mass fliers, that we couldn't tie into the website. Needs to be Nostred up.
Nostr is like Bitcoin. People are trying to skip the local adoption phase. They're just throwing gobs of money at the problem and hoping it sticks.
We're a bunch of professional developers and site admins and project managers and website developers. Just change the stuff out, ffs.
Nobody cares. They just want the thingy to do the thing.
I have wondered this, it's possible there are private groups/relays outside of our ability to see them. And they'd have to make themselves known/mentioned it elsewhere or something. It's somewhat unlikely, but possible.
More likely social alts aren't getting much attention atm, Bluesky is wanting a bit too.
Also I think with all this breaking news and ww3 happening every week xitter is still the place people look. I mean eve khamenei has a twitter, being on an alt is like having lag, people are waiting for reports from there. Whereas you can just be there directly. (I'm not saying this is a good thing, just saying that's how it is/seems).
Yeah, Twitter is the newsrooom.
We run multiple private relays, so yes.
TBH, I seem many more use cases for private relays than public ones. Alexandria and GitRepublic are also aimed at people running private relays.
I'm more interested in getting rid of Office365 and Jira, than Twitter.
I'm not talking about the Twitter use case.
I'm saying that I could have switched out the infra and comms of the 12 farm villages around me + the homeschool groups of my family + the private communities of me and my frens + have 4 different deep research communities going on full of wikis, articles, forums, videos, chat, etc...
And you wouldn't notice it **at all** from the Twitter-clones tailored to Bitcoin-worshipping-newsfeed-addicts.
