I've not even used Twitter since I started using Nostr full time. Pretty much abandoned it. Feel like just pinning a tweet telling my followers where to find me on here.

And yes exactly. Nostr is actually decentralised. It's a network of nodes without a leader. So the opinions of individuals just don't matter.

Lightning on Twitter would be centralised and probably KYC'd. I'm not arguing in favour of that at all, just realistically as a US based company it's logically what I expect them to have to do for anything crypto related did to regulations.

Here again the decentralised model of Nostr wins out!

Lightning is used for most Bitcoin transactions in El Salvador and is already built into mainstream apps like CashApp. Officially it's a beta but there's no reason Twitter couldn't just integrate it from Block. All they'd have to do is plug in an API.

I don't think anyone seriously thinks we're magically immune from issues like spambots. That's why proactive solutions like paid relays and rate limiting and blacklisting public keys already exist and new ideas are being worked on as we speak.

Nostr is still very early but you know what... I'd choose it over Twitter no question.