Oh for sure, I don’t expect non-techie people to run their own instances for just personal accounts. And sure, you can get banned if you don’t follow the instance rules. But again, if you can use Google then you can find a handful of services that will stand up a server for you within a few minutes if you pay a few dollars. But yeah, that’s still an issue.

Nostr doesn’t have that issue, but has plenty of others, especially for non-techie people. I’ve been in IT for over a decade now and I have worked with plenty of people you’d call techie that don’t have a clue about public/private keypairs. And the relays are confusing for newbies. Understanding what they are exactly, how many should you have, and which ones should you use. Discoverability is also very difficult on Nostr from my experience. It can be difficult to find who to follow if you aren’t a Bitcoin fanatic. So from my experiences, it’s been easier for the normal person to adopt something like the Fediverse or Bluesky than Nostr. The average person also likely isn’t worried about getting banned, so that isn’t as big of a draw to them.

*All opinions above are my own and likely to be incorrect to the majority of Nostr users today*