why did mastodon take off so much (relatively)? Good ux?
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My take: the perception of decentralization. I admire the attempt and respect the efforts of Mastodon devs, but in the end, it’s just another DINO.
because it worked, dont get too caught up in fluff, the spam nostr will face is maybe the biggest issue
Agree that spam is likely to be one of the bigger issues, at least for the big open global nostr. It'd be possible to have smaller whitelisted nostrs that'd be more like the old BBSes, and a user/client can attach to many at the same time so there's quite a lot of possibilities in different setups,/network configurations that users might try, have preference for.
world definitely has at least 1 million people who are technical, and who would want some type of 'technical' solution that gives them some more freedom than a totally centralized app like twitter etc. for them, mastodon was the only getaway.
