The problem is you start adding all those things to make it a better experience and you end up with an incredibly complicated decentralized theatre protocol like bluesky.

It really does seems like the level of inconvenience/suck correlates directly with the level of freedom/decentralization.

Primal has the most user friendly nostr app experience but they have to do the heavy lifting on their caching server for you…effectively making a centralized window that aggregates the decentralized protocol’s hot spots and popular areas. It can’t continue this way as it doesn’t provide a better user experience than twitter, TikTok, instagram etc. according to the users that like those platforms … and it also is being effectively used in a centralized manner by many of the flagship clients that mostly imitate twitter.

The only thing that is really great is not getting banned — but only a small set of people have experienced getting banned on the major platforms and can appreciate it. Even now fewer and fewer people are getting banned on the major socials nowadays since zuck got buff and Elon took over X.

I lied there is another thing that is great about nostr. That it’s very easy to develop on. That’s great. I literally just spun up and am dog feeding my own client for everything I post here. I’m sure many others are doing the same.

Okay also how there are ads and stuff too and my data isn’t being harvested. That’s cool too. So another thing.

But how many people appreciate these things. Most people just want to go where their community is. Where their friends are. Where eyeballs are if they are selling/influencing.

When a decent Reddit tier nostr application is built that has robust communities and up and downvote to filter signal… I think that’d be a game changer. So many people rely on Reddit and it is still one of the worst socials banning wise and culture wise.