nostr is annoying as fuck but i'm persevering. It feels like bitcoin in 2013. All the moving parts are there but just in built in a really inefficient way. I have next to zero dev skills so I shouldn't complain too much. It's free, open, permissionless and I believe has a real shot at the king but as you said, might just become one big Maxipad circle jerk. 

Even just sending some zaps is fraught with irritation. Zapped some older posts of UM but unable to know if they went through.