I understand why everyone focuses on clones, though, as that's the easiest way to be successful, since everyone understands what it does and how it works. If you hear "the new Twitter" or "the new Instagram" or "the new Facebook", everyone can picture something concrete.

If you build something novel, everyone is just like, LOL Wut? It's a double-high hurdle, as Nostriches came here for the social media clones and you're communicating to a feed completely dominated by social media clone producers, so you're trying to redirect a tiny subset of a tiny market, while holding the world's smallest microphone.

You really have to focus to being useful to people who aren't already on Nostr. You have to solve some _other, additional_ problem. People have to come to your app, for the app's own sake. Which means your app needs to be really, really, good.