I can understand that some people don't want to mix money and social media or whatever use case, but that's just hippie bullshit. Money has to be involved somewhere. The difference is that some Nostr clients just make it explicitly clear and give users a way to support one another instead of the dominant model of centralized control that turns users into the product. I use the zap button instead of a 'like' button to support things I get value from.

No client is forcing people to adopt the value for value model. The bigger issue seems to be that certain people don't like that many Nostr users are Bitcoiners. Sorry, but those principles and people are what have fostered this. It certainly wasn't the fiat and Twitter maxis.

I don't buy that Bitcoin is keeping people off of Nostr. Most people simply don't value freedom or at least don't show it in their actions.