#asknostr had we agreed upon the best messaging app already? SimpleX no one uses, signal when started asking to run updates annoyed me, OxChat we ain't there yet, please someone bring me clarity?

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it has to do with the ethos of its origins, reading the short white paper of Satoshi Nakamoto triggered a lot of people to create a movement and therefore a tribe or as you call it, a cult. Despite it fails at being the p2p money for the people it became the best in class store of value.

logically, a strong tribe evolves and expands, Bitcoin has done a very good job helped by being the first to market,

other crypto are doing a decent job and expanding, ironically, the more toxic the tribe is the more chances it has to survive and succeed, look at the called XRP army, the founders dump on them millions periodically to maintain their business, the tribe is still there defending the project and is thriving, many other examples as Litecoin, the founder dumped all of it publicly and still the tribe is loyal to the project, I believe ADA has a similar tribe despite it has performed poorly, still a strong follow and the newly Pulsechain network with a following growing despite of some weird scandals, that tribe seems to be quite toxic and united as XRP or Bitcoin...

With all the relays out there, how do I know which ones to add? There's so many and I have FOMO. #asknostr

same here, and still struggling, imagine to move them to SimpleX...

more mixed mind liked people are needed, there are many tribes out there, problem is, this community was started by maxis bitcoiners, their attitude makes it even harder for adoption, yet, I see a growing community of artists, musicians and even tribes from other cryoto currencies like Monero, they will form their decentralized groups and fund their relays and flourish here once they get it...

you are right

it is pretty new in comparison, it is community based and decentralized therefore there is a massive trade off,

without centralization, the efforts are scattered across different clients and devs, the grants follow separate interests and relays are not free for the ones who runs them, specially the large ones like 'nostr . build" or the ones ran by Damus for instance...

adoption is increasing due to the awareness of online privacy and the circus on going with X, tiktok and the likes, but with no PM and PR departments we have a long way to go to be mainstream, same happened to Bitcoin

the relays are the servers where all information is stored, like nodes in Bitcoin. You can even run your private one with Umbrel or Star09 or in your mobile with cittine

when you configure then in your client, try not to have too many, they all have the same data (suppose to...) therefore there will be a lot of memory consumed in your device.

the ideal number is about 10 popular and low latency relays in general and about 3 for Search, DMs and inbox

if on Amethyst, you can select the tab relays in the profile of people you follow and believe they know that they are doing and copy their relays setup

the app as well has the option for you top edit your list and guides you on the number you should select for inbox, DMs, general, search, etc

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