I’ll give you that, but everyone knew that Netscape, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, etc. were web browsers. They didn’t confuse the client with the protocol. So it’s not a perfect comparison.
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I think the same would apply here. Use Damus/Snort/etc to access the Nostr
And with Nostr, people will know it's social communication. The world wide web is just the non technical term for http. Social communication is just non technical for nostr.
But yes, people did confuse a client with the protocol.
Most people just call the app “Internet”. They don’t know Chrome from Edge from Safari. They just use whatever’s built-in.
Source: me working in IT (and specifically the web) for 24 years.