I recently concluded that my expectations for Nostr are wrong (and those overhyping it aren't helping).

Nostr is still in it's first "cycle." And to be fair, I've watched it improve a lot. Nostr use and adoption will probably have some milestones over years. I predict at least 10 as of now. It is just going to be an echo chamber in the earlier years. You can't escape that, and life is easier if you don't try. The big names in the space pushing it as if it's ready right now are just wrong.

Nostr sucks to use, and I'm a highly technical user. Most of the people defending it are just blinded to that because they either work on it or are technical enough to work around issues most people will not deal with. Forms of bias. Even I do this to an extent, but that's why I thought deeply about it.

Just enjoy it as it is and keep using the centralized platforms IF that's for you. It's all good. I'm Nostr only now, but honestly, I wanted to delete all of it anyway and would have. I'm just here to try and help a better world come to fruition. It is an echo chamber. It's a massive circle jerk. But I don't think it will be forever, just as Bitcoin is expanding now. That took 15 years though. Peace.