There’s nothing “weird” about it.

Decentralisation comes with clear drawbacks in the marketplace. Nostr may be superior technically, in almost EVERY way, but there is no coordinated communications effort.

I posted about this two weeks ago, and half the responses were: “oh you’re too bearish on Nostr” or “look at all the cool tech we’re building”.

And that’s precisely my point. The focus has ALL been on the tech (and rightly so). But my entire argument was that the gaze needs to begin to shift towards communications & go to market. There’s no point building the coolest car if nobody knows about it.

Maybe we didn't need Nostr in the first place, everybody could just have blogs and provide RSS feeds!

Reader clients could keep track of all the blogs you followed and aggregate all the RSS feeds in a unified feed.

And then in order to comment on other people's posts we would post to our own RSS feed and send an HTTP request to the original poster so they would notice and read and display our comment with a link to our blog?

And people didn't even have to host their own servers, they could just rely on commodity blog providers that would host things on their behalf! This could have been huge!

And the best part: it's all HTTP and HTML, so we know it will be loved by all developers and scale to millions!