#nostr first impressions The protocol is exciting It's a revolutionary change Which unlocks potential for innovation that was stymied by centralization Technologically a protocol - perhaps nostr - feels like the right approach Being able to access your account by pasting a key into any client is really cool Being able to post from the command line (!) is really cool People will have more control over their social experience The relay thing isn't really working The client-side burden of synchronizing data is too heavy and clients are struggling with performance, completeness and consistency Look at a comment thread to the same post in two different clients connected to an identical set of relays and they'll be a very different sets of comments It's not clear that relays will be any more resistant to government censorship than centralized social media There are very few usable clients None in the browser None on desktop plebstr on Android is usable Apparently Damus on iOS is ok But it's early days We have the outline of something that is potentially really great