Oddbean

I deleted my Twitter account before Elon made the decision to buy it. I still go on there to look at a few accounts but do it with a Nitter instance that still functions so am not a victim to algo's or ads. It's my opinion that Nostr will never become widely adopted & will remain used almost entirely by bitcoiners & that X will continue to be the primary social media space on the internet (unless the government starts to clamp down on it). Normies are not going to start sorting through relays in order to use Nostr just as they are not going to set up hardware wallets and generate seeds so they can self-custody bitcoin. I imagine that social media will change significantly and that aspects of Nostr such as decentralization will be adopted in the future but Nostr is and will remain a place primarily for bitcoiners. I've been on Nostr almost two years & there has been no noticeable growth outside of bitcoiners.