<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>jack (npub1sg…uf63m)</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>nostr is still mainly used alongside twitter. in the best rare case, as a replacement. and only because people are running away from something about twitter they don&#39;t like.&#xA;&#xA;there is nothing that people want to run to nostr for yet. zaps were promising, but bitcoin is still a hurdle (one that primal is doing the best at overcoming), and it&#39;s doubtful lightning could scale to a massive adoption moment.&#xA;&#xA;nostr needs a feature or experience that&#39;s unique and sets it apart. i *think* that is the ecosystem of microapps over the long term...but it&#39;s definitely not in the short term. and that might be ok.&#xA;&#xA;for twitter the initial draw was the simplicity and weirdness of 140 characters (we started with zero network effect, facebook had it all...that&#39;s built over time). later it became the conversation which lead to the &#34;public square&#34; (owned by a private corporation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). and then as it grew, it had a single point of control/failure people could attack.&#xA;&#xA;nostr doesn&#39;t have to worry about that last bit. it&#39;s an incredible feature. but not one the average person cares about (no matter how much they yell &#34;FREE SPEECH!&#34;...if people actually cared about free speech, bitcoin and nostr would be all they used...they don&#39;t). &#xA;&#xA;all this to say, we&#39;re not doomed. but what we think is the killer feature isn&#39;t right now. who&#39;s going to discover the one that is?</html></oembed>