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 I’m not extremely familiar with the technology behind Nostr. I’m just a dude trying to entertain myself. So I have no clue about how to implement anything. I do know that I don’t really care about bitcoin, or dev speak, and that’s a majority of what I see on any Nostr client. I absolutely love the privacy, and decentralized aspect of Nostr, but the content kinda sucks from the perspective of the majority of us that don’t really care about the topics that are proliferated on every client. Thats a major limiting factor for the success of Nostr. It will be tough to grow any client to a substantial user base with limited content. It will be what it is today a niche that hits a wall that it can’t grow beyond. Without the ability for the user to curate content you won’t grab enough users to build anything that competes in any way with centralized social media. Communities don’t come without there draw backs for sure, but likewise neither to generic relays. For me I jump into Nostr clients about once every six months to see if anything appeals to me hoping, and praying something will, and immediately get thrown right back into the same bitcoin, and dev speak content I don’t really care about, and then bail for another 6 months. Many won’t be as little committed as I am. Many will jump in, dislike the content, leave, and never return. There has to be an answer to that that can be implemented in a marketable way. Basically in a way that an 80 year old grandma can implement with little effort, and enjoy doing. Without that nostr social media clients are doomed to a small nice audience of bitcoiners, and developers. I’m extremely interested in nostr for my own reason, and perpetually let down by it at the same time, and I am the majority of potential users you lose with generic relays.