If Musk woke up one day and decided to turn X into a Nostr based system:

 - Issued keys to every user account and allowed users to collect their keys or bring their own
 - Signed every message retroactively
 - Turned their internal servers into relays so users could collect the now nostr-compliant notes, or post them without being logged in; also for non-X clients to read notes from X relays
 - Enabled zap support

But X still:

 - Required you to have a user account for the npub notes to be accepted by their relays
 - Refused to accept and relay notes that violated their terms and services ie. moderated their relays
 - Terminated user accounts if/when a user violated their rules enough times
 - Maintained premium subscription tiers that restricted the types of data their relays would handle

What would you think about X, and Elon himself, if this were to be done? 

Personally I think it's not an ideal system, but it would be a massive improvement over the current. I also think it might actually be something he could be convinced to do. 

 https://i.nostr.build/78qe.jpg
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 WOULD BE A NET WIN AND A POSITIVE CHANGE.

HE WILL NEVER DO THAT THOUGH. 

 Never say never. You know like mempool will never clear right 😂 

 in the future he will have no choice not to do this. 

 Love the idea, hope someone shows it to Musk. However, I also like keeping my X and Nostr accounts as different names so if this happened I’d prob create a new Nostr account to match my X 

 Never going to happen. He’s ego and overall world view will never allow it. 

 There was a little while in Urbit where people were speculating that Musk was going to switch twitter accounts to urbit ships. 
This is sort of a tangent, but I find it interesting that the Musk+Twitter combo often attracts thoughts in this direction  

 I think we all know that X/Twitter is a much better place now than it was before he bought it, and in the direction we value and he claims to value. But for we who were building and adapting replacements such as Urbit and Nostr, we know it doesn't go far enough. In many ways, the improvement is much like sealing up a gunshot wound without first removing the bullet. 
I don't think he meant to do this, I'm not convinced he's a plant. But he has made fixing the social media landscape much more difficult by providing a half-measure that looks like a full one. And I think this is why it's a common thought.  

 Yea totally agreed. 

The "half measures" thing where normies are satisfied and the real problems aren't actually solved is poison to principled, full solutions (and their chance at adoption). 

I was just saying the other day that Apple's new "private, transient compute in the cloud" angle is likely to have a similar effect on truly private and sovereign remote durable execution (which is more or less a technical category that my company is working on).