Example of this is bitchat. I bet most users using the geohash do not know it uses nostr
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true, a good example ^^
There will be more apps like that where the nostr protocol will be abstracted away. And users just having forums about gardening or some other function, won't even be nostr aware at all.
Bitchat doesn't use Nostr. No npub, no nsec, no NIP, no nothing. Just borrowing a little real estate on a relay server.
I'm not writing in English, just borrowing some words to relay some meaning.
Correct. Japanese borrows many words from English. If someone says "turn on the television" in Japanese, the word television is from English, certainly doesn't mean that person is speaking English.
Aren't the npubs needed for the NIP-17 Giftwrap encryption that bitchat can use for its nostr fallback internet communication?
You can choose to "login with Nostr", at which point you're going to be pretty aware you're using Nostr. You'll need a signer extension, or you need to paste in an Nsec, and to do other things you can't do without knowing something about what you're doing.
Same as if you login with Google, you can't really do that without being aware you're logging in with Google.