They don’t need to study cryptography but they should understand why nostr and not Twitter etc.
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It could still be net benefit for #Nostr overall if some app becomes popular using Nostr, without advertising that to it’s users. I could still interact with them using other apps.
The core idea of truly owning your digital identity altough it does not have to be real, without depending on a 2nd party while still being able to be discovered because of interconnections with other relays.
I can even argue that the first step should be educating people about the meaning of #cryptography in the first place.
It’s similar as with custodial #Bitcoin wallets like nostr:npub1hcwcj72tlyk7thtyc8nq763vwrq5p2avnyeyrrlwxrzuvdl7j3usj4h9rq . You could argue that’s not using #Bitcoin and that would not be totally false claim, but,at the same time, you can do monetary transactions with such users with your non-custodial proper wallet, so, at the end of the day, it is net positive for Bitcoin.