What makes nostr great, IMO, is that it’s permissionless. You don’t need anyone’s permission to make an account, use a client, run a relay, or develop.

As a programmer, I find this participatory protocol much more attractive than centralized alternatives, and so I’m willing to give it my surplus attention.

#Nostr is not, today, the most popular protocol. But it’s accretive of developer attention in ways that competing protocols are not.