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the entire world using it and not using any other platform

We have to prove that we are able to substitute at least one legacy platform in the same quality or better and cause some amount of user migration.

you know Nostr is succesful when there are efforts to regulate it

Is it a success if that one client is entirely centralized and runs off its own infrastructure and software that isn't interoperable?

Is it a success if "it" is a single client controlled by a handful of people?

I think I have asked it and went to the void 😂 I think success would mean when nostr is adopted widely by less tech-savvy. it also means that we have moved to a social media where we value donating to creators directly, LN adopted too by users (zap). We get to choose which algorithm, search and filtering, users can pick. If it gets adopted, the financial support will come naturally I guess. People do not mind paying if they understand the service they are paying for and user-friendly to use. I'd say people are here bcoz they are early adopters, believe the cause, btc believers and some are forced to be here bcoz they were censored by other socials. 👌

1 million users

Then it's not a nostr client, it's just a platform using a relay as a message bus. I think a pure nostr client can roughly be defined by ones ability to run your own instance and still have comparable or full functionality. Example: When I run my own NostrBnB I still get storage (blossom), compute (contextvm) and auth by having an architecture that allows these things. I speculate that price pressure will incentivise exactly that. Specialized actors offering their services on a free market for sats.

How would you define it?

no, clients shouldn't be controlled by anyone except their users

#asknostr