Oddbean

You don't need your followers to change app, but you will find that if you tell your followers that you are moving, they will follow you anyway. People aren't married to their clients. Users aren't on instagram because it is run by meta, they are on it because they can find the content they want on it and their favourite ifluencers are building for it, so even if the content is elsewhere, the platform is likely going to give the best experience. Same will happen on nostr, but for those who are torn between their fandoms, or who are somehow married to their clients, they get to stay put. Freedom. I think this also gives clients the freedom to focus on what they want too: features and community or relationship building tools. People will use one app to poke and share with their friends, and the other to support and fan out on their favourite creators. Yet the same content will be on both apps, maybe the apps will even interop so they can each focus on their specialities while operating on the same data.

I don't think followers will move if one of the creators moves. "The Chat app" means you talk to many creators there, and if one of them moves I'll have to install the new app just for them? An app per creator might make sense if it's been this way from the start, but not when I'm already used to using one "the best" aggregator app.

I've seen content creators move, it happens over time and they tend to follow oneanother too. Content creators are in friendly competition, so if an app has a feature that helps build engagement, other content creators will jump on it too, and then eventually they will focus on building for the features they prefer. That said: I expecy the cost to move between apps on nostr to be cheap AF compared to traditional platforms. Most content will be generically supported by all, and then maybe specialised features like merch stores will be on specific apps and people will need to use that app to access it. Regarding the "one best aggregator app", I use #Amethyst, it is great, but I suspect that eventually many of the features will rot. I already don't use it for accessing streams, I favour zap.stream. Somehow I feel like it isn't as good on #Amethyst. How things evolve is neither here or there, but at the very least, we should acknowledge, I can still see and interact with you on #Amethyst, even if you use something like #Primal.

Agree with all you said, but there's more to "owning" your online space. Your preferred Nostr app might present your content well and be usable to talk to fans, but you still can't change the design of it, can't extend it the way you want, can't promote it in all ways possible and can't measure your marketing performance, etc. But that's a story for another day. Thanks for the detailed input!