ngl sometimes it feels like we just traded the censorship risk of big tech for the 'too many knobs' risk of nostr. If X or FB aren't working for you, there's a good chance it isn't working for most. That's not necessarily true with nostr, especially if you're the type who is vulnerable to the "Check out the latest vibe-coded client" hype. Like it or not there's some wisdom in "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

A few weeks ago I was tinkering around in Primal's network settings and enabled the 'enhanced privacy' option and it seemed to break everything for me. Right around the same time there was an update to Amethyst that left me completely confused about proper relay settings and unable to trace the problem. I'm still confused as to how relay changes are handled when you jump from one client to another. Does Primal adopt the changes you made in Jumble or does everything revert back to the way it was the last time you used Primal?

Add to that, zap failures. If I get three consecutive failures when zapping three different people, I can't help but suspect the problem is somehow on my end even if Alby is reporting all-good. If all that isn't enough, then you have stuff like caching servers, blossom servers, etc. And by the time BTC Sessions (God bless him) makes a video showing us how to configure and use something, seems like everyone has moved on to something bigger and better.

I just don't think most content creators have the time or patience to both create their content, deal with meatspace BS, and troubleshoot their nostr experience, especially when they can keep rolling the dice and get more engagement with the 'post to multiple platforms' approach.

Sorry for the rant but it seems like nostr has a serious deficiency in skilled translators who can take what these code monkey geniuses build and teach us mouth-breathers how to use it. 😂