My favorite game Halo launched their new game Halo Infinite too early before fully finishing… It got mostly bad first impressions, and now the community is fringe. They finally resolved most of its bugs, but it’s too late now. Microsoft will need to launch the next Halo game strong from the start to regenerate traction with the fans. This is why I’m so bullheaded about launching Nestr strong, with most features complete (git, relay syncing strategy, monetization, AI-based content moderation & feeds, etc). First impressions are huge, like jack mentioned at a recent conference. As Will said once, people want innovation not incremental improvement. Incremental improvement is just the cherry on top. Otherwise, without an amazing first impression, we’d need to wait for some world shaking event to push everyone to move to nostr (like we saw via politics and BlueSky). If there are no political emergencies to sway people over here yet, then we must woo them with style and abilities they’ve never seen anywhere else — a compilation of something familiar but entirely new, not just a copy of old legacy tech with bells & whistles. The distinction will become clear in hindsight.