Oddbean

True. I don't think most of our current apps will survive the micro app dominion. The best apps today already have too much technical debt and are falling behind most of the new ones in terms of architecture. That's kinda the point of smaller apps, they can easily be replaced by new tech stacks.

I'm not sure about this. Users will read about Nostr and end up trying something like Nostrudel, Primal, Damus, or Amethyst. If they encounter bad UX, they’ll bounce and likely won’t come back. If we don’t build a solid experience today, there won’t be enough users willing to try all of the “micro apps” for Nostr. At the very least, we need a functional, pleasant, easy-to-use Twitter clone. Just look at ActivityPub software: as much as I like Peertube, Lemmy, Pixelfeed, etc., it’s the plain, “boring” Mastodon that really brings users into the ecosystem. As for downloading multiple micro apps, like a “Signer,” “Local Relay,” and “Notification Receiver” just to use “Twitterst,” “TickTockstr,” or “Spotifiestr”… I don’t think that’s going to fly with anyone outside the dev community. Bundle or no bundle, there’s very little incentive for the average person to jump through all these hoops. But, as always, I’m happy to be proven wrong.

I don't disagree on the solid experience. But that doesn't need to be centralized in massive apps. In fact, I will say that there is no point in building nostr at all if in the end all we have is a few apps that control everything because they are the only ones with good experience.