#nostr first impressions

The protocol is exciting

It's a revolutionary change

Which unlocks potential for innovation that was stymied by centralization

Technologically a protocol - perhaps nostr - feels like the right approach

Being able to access your account by pasting a key into any client is really cool

Being able to post from the command line (!) is really cool

People will have more control over their social experience

The relay thing isn't really working

The client-side burden of synchronizing data is too heavy and clients are struggling with performance, completeness and consistency

Look at a comment thread to the same post in two different clients connected to an identical set of relays and they'll be a very different sets of comments

It's not clear that relays will be any more resistant to government censorship than centralized social media

There are very few usable clients

None in the browser

None on desktop

plebstr on Android is usable

Apparently Damus on iOS is ok

But it's early days

We have the outline of something that is potentially really great