There are many reasons why Nostr has not become popular yet.
- Not having a decentralized consensus voting for nips. Instead we have the guardians of the nips. A small group of developers who stifle innovation of the protocol. Who can hardly ever agree with each other on how best to implement features.
- Lack of proper marketing materials, media kits, and onboarding for new users.
- Each Nostr client having their own little kingdom of users that inflate the developers egos. Instead of getting them to fix the real problems and address the needs of their users.
- Not integrating on-chain bitcoin zaps to help new users who can't discover the right lightning wallets, or run their own nodes.
- Not having Nips which give more privacy and control over the user experience. Such as being able to block users from following you even after you have muted them.
I could keep going, but I think you get the point. We have become the Amish, because we have our own little isolated communities and each one is very opinionated on how things are done. Yet, we still are all united by a strict faith in Bitcoin and freedom of speech.
Hoping one day we all come together, create a dao, and get our shit together as a community to finally move our efforts forward to be ready for mainstream use. If not, I am still perfectly fine with being a part of the amish version of the internet.
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