Nostr is the future if marketed correctly. Otherwise it will wither away as well. I hoping it doesn’t though.
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only something better can stop nostr
Better is subjective to the user. Some people (probably most) don’t care about a decentralized option, or crypto. If they don’t care about any of that stuff then there are much better options than Nostr.
Marketing can get Nostr over that hump, but the only Marketing I’ve seen has been focused on the very things mentioned in this comment. That won’t grab mass appeal.
If you want users then figure out what users want, and offer that to them. Otherwise users will find options that are not Nostr, and Nostr will fade into obscurity because of it.
so nostr can capture people and communities affected by censorship and other bad effects of centralization, i think because nostr can work across different apps it will advance technologically faster than entities like twitter and it already has, p2p tech like holepunch is potentially even better but will likely complement nostr
the permissionless nature of nostr makes withering very impossible