My favorite app on nostr (besides my own 😂) is #cornychat. I was bound to fall for an audio app first because the human voice is a better social function than any graphic one (for me, because I love the pitch variations and prosody of expressive speech). 

When I first joined nostr, I fell in love with nostr nests for the same reason and I kind of found my niche group of nostr friends that way. The first variation of nostr nests was not entirely open source, which I didn’t understand or care about at that time. So, when it was time to upgrade nostr nests, the developers had to do a complete re-write, which was a lot of work and took some time. 

During that time, nostr nests was down and a lot of the daily users (like me) had nowhere to meetup. That’s when nostr:npub1yx6pjypd4r7qh2gysjhvjd9l2km6hnm4amdnjyjw3467fy05rf0qfp7kza began writing another audio space on jam systems, that is entirely open-source. When he was doing beta, a lot of my friends and I were excited to test because we missed having an audio space to shoot the shit in. 

That’s where we hung out while the new nostr nests was being developed. Since I spent a lot of time there, I quickly got used to all of the features/UX/UI. I made and designed my own room and such. 

When the new nostr nests came out, I was excited to try it out, but it was new and had different features to figure out. 

I love both of these apps, I just feel more comfortable with cornychat because I am already proficient in all of the features and a lot of my friends already have rooms there. I even suggested 2 different features that I personally had use cases for and nostr:npub1yx6pjypd4r7qh2gysjhvjd9l2km6hnm4amdnjyjw3467fy05rf0qfp7kza was able to implement them. 

Anyways, several people have suggested or asked why I don’t use nostr nests more instead of cornychat or “isn’t cornychat just a fork of nostrnests anyways?”.  

That’s doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, which is why I typed this all out. 

Nobody appears to have confusion when it comes to various/separate nostr clients. It’s not like a lot of the major clients are that different as far as function (I’m sure the code/structure varies), but they’re basically all kind-1 explorers and nobody has asked me why I use one nostr client over the other, why should it be any different with audio space apps? 

Now there’s another addition to the audio team, #hivetalk and I think it’s fabulous. 

Furthermore, despite the similarities, I have found that all 3 apps appear to be demonstrating completely different use cases at the moment. 

Nostrnests appear to have the most podcast/speaker type formats 

Cornychat appears to have the most informal/conversation type formats 

Hivetalk appears to have the most media-sharing formats (e.g., screen sharing) 

My question to everyone: does this not lend more towards decentralization than relying on a single audio app?