i am of the opinion that nostr is not going to be the only social network tied to bitcoin and lightning.

mainly because the people championing the project and marketing it to investors are constantly actively attacking the protocol, the protocol itself is severely underspecified, and the number of ways in which it will be exploited is probably unlimited.

others will build new systems, but it will be harder to get adoption because of the costs involved in getting it built, and the expectation of most investors to have some near term yield on their investment.

but just as out of the mess of edonkey, gnutella, and bittorrent, eventually bittorrent rose to be the defining filesharing system, there will be a winner for bitcoin based social network.

i am going to take a big step back from nostr. i have built things for it but without any money backing me i'm pissing in the wind.