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 Most people, when I mention Nostr haven’t heard of it yet, or immediately go to their App Store looking for the “Nostr” app. We are still a long way from winning. 
 We can't win, we all die in the end. Just gotta slap some booty along the way. 
 When you put it that way! 
 That's fine. We can have the main apps there and all the micro apps on zap.store  
 We’ve won already & I believe we’re closer than many believe. My guess is within the next 10 years. Truly.  
 I don’t get complacent. We have so much work to do. 
 Definitely 💯  
 It is communication that needs to change. For the lay user, there is no point in saying NOSTR, you have to say the name of the application and it has to be available on the Play Store. This is the beginning, over time the user will discover the rest on their own. 
 Agree. I don't invite people to nostr. I invite them to Amethyst.  
 What about people who don’t use Android or want a browser experience? 
 Then I sell Coracle or Primal. But I rarely discuss nostr itself. 
 Does that not do a disservice to the common protocol that we use? I usually say I want to invite someone to Nostr and then immediately follow up saying that there are a lot of apps to choose from, and show them my profile on 2 or 3 of them. 
 No. The protocol is irrelevant. People want do join a cool community/app. They couldn't care less about the protocol. If you are explaining the protocol first, you are still talking inside our inner circles.  
 I, for one, welcome the inner circles 
 There’s a reason there was a Nostriga and a Nostrasia and not an Amethriga or a Damusasia. 
 Yeah, these are dev conferences. Real world is a LOT different.  
 I tend to think about it the way I think about bitcoin. One protocol, unlimited apps. I’m not promoting any one app because what happens if that’s the one that rugs them? 
 Then that app is to blame. If you sold that app as Nostr, the whole protocol is to blame. This is why people think Nostr is bad, even though what was bad was their experience with the first app, not nostr itself.