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 Nostr devs overlook a crucial point about the modern world:  Huge numbers of  social media users  esp on twitter (and majority of westerners who are under 35) describe themselves as socialists.  They are not interested in crypto.  They want to socialise their opinions not monetise them.  Crypto capitalism is not the future many seek.  Zaps have hindered nostrs appeal to the masses in my opinion, bitcoin only excites nostr nerds and devs who own crypto already.  Nostr should be about freedom FROM money (including crypto), like peer to peer torrenting /chatting if you want to attract the mass of politically active  people who use social media like twitter , of which they are a core group.  Crypto may have more success with tiktok users, but I dount it, and at the moment nostr is more twitter than tiktok anyway.