Nostr was fun free years back, now it's either nuts, cashu and or some other weird tech that is not adding much value.
Serverless tech such as #Keet has more going on that is cool, nostr needs to adapt or it will remain a niche circle jerk thing.
Discussion
does it work well? Do people still use it?
It works pretty well, it's on beta still though, and obviously not very polished. Nonethless, the serverless p2p architecture is very interesting and is open source mostly. I see some people writing in the dev chats about integrating that tech with nostr to eliminate the need for relays. It's very interesting to see how it'll unravel. My tech expertise is not yet at that level, but I am learning more and more.
Very few use it currently but its UX is nearly good enough to replace WhatsApp and in some ways already better. The fundamental difference Keet has from Signal, Simplex, Nostr etc is Keet can already scale with no cost to bigger than WhatsApp
Holepunch has been quietly working on a tech stack that's going to completely change the tech sector
Fair point. Nostr adapts if the opt out path is as easy as the cached one: a relay direct toggle, local feed indexing, per feature off switches, and payments as optional plugins. A simple decentralization scorecard per client listing non swappable deps would keep incentives honest. At Masters of The Lair we favor key first, telemetry free defaults. Would a public scorecard move the needle?