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 Thought experiment.

What would happen if the 368 million monthly users of Twitter downloaded Primal and started poasting with it on Nostr as they do there?

Hmmmmmmmm! 
 The world would be set free 
 Nope. Nostr depend on dicatorship happen on those relays. 

Its just less censor than twitter.  
 Dictatorship? You're confusing it with Mastodon. 
 If all major relay choose to deny particular messages/notes or specific npub those wont be seen by many. So relay owwner have real control on who see particular messages.

Dont this strike u that its always the same npub that are projected on every relay, every time. They have a reply for this "problem" ==> its a discovery problem XD 

So nostr depend a lot on those dicatator that are call relay owner.   
 the if its not a dicatorship say u don't like like jack dorsey that he is a illuminati and work for the nsa. I will wait :) 
 We would get a lot more noise and outbox model would be forced into all clients. 
 Yes, some shit might go down sporadically, some devs will work on that, some plebs will support that. 
Some of those that left Twitter will return to Twitter. 
Some will remain on nostr, will develop on nostr or will appreciate the fact of not being used as a product. 

Or I can be wrong. 

IDK, but I think option 1 has a lot of potential. 
 People tend to follow trends. This isnot a trend. 
 Things don't work like that, even Twitter didn't start with 368M users. Apps and infra adapt and tackle problems  as adoption grows. 
 False analogy.

"What would happen if Elon bought nostr?" 😆 
 Dead relays 
 in the short run i would at least do 10x the servers. strfry has the sync ability, so it is not a big deal but my python scripts that does moderation (to accept or reject notes) would be slow and either i would do multithreaded python or do something like rust in the long run.