Ok, I've been trying to better organize my thoughts on how to say this better. What the better elevator pitch to explain what nostr is. Yes, it'a protocol, but what exactly does that mean. How do you explain how a protocol is different from a platform when that sentence inevitably comes up?

A platform holds things. It constrains them. Things are *kept* on a platform.

A protocol connects things. It brings together. Things are *shared* with a protocol.

So. How do you say it's a protocol without saying it's a protocol?

What is nostr? Nostr connects things.

Nostr connects Amythist to Zap.Stream and it connects ZBD to habla.news and it connects Damus to Stemstr and on and on and on because it's designed to be shared and it's designed to be unstopable.

And even more importantly nostr connects your profile to all of those thing so your friends and followers will be able to connect with you in all those places*

So that's my elevator pitch. No protocols, no bitcoins, amd no purple pills. They'll get all that once we get them in the door. They'll blink and the next thing they know they'll have a full node running on a raspberry pi next to the wifi router.

*They may occasionally need to refollow you until we get this stupid disappearing follow list problem solved, but still.