Check out Pubky. Nostr has a great community, but the protocol and "bazaar" development system has some critical limitations. I think Pubky may be a better protocol for what you're envisioning.

I recently joined Pubky. It seems pretty cool. I tried searching for your name “Eron” but it only allowed me to search for tags. Maybe it’s different on the desktop website, but I can’t seem to search for profiles on mobile…

But doesn't this run on home servers instead of client-relay network? In that case Comm, using Keyservers, already exists (although the web3 part of Comm is severely lacking).

You can search by name too, maybe Eron changed his name because i can't search him either.

Pubky is indeed already designed with long-term coordination in mind. Our open Semantic Social Graph method allows anyone to assemble any social graph view they want, and pull tag metadata from the sources. To do p2p voting you need this and more, whereas using Nostr would be extremely problematic because there is no data provenance. You'd lose votes, have censored votes, have no way to seprate real from fake users. Pubky, with PKDNS & SSG fixes that. We are not actively working specifically on voting use cases any time soon though, so someone else would need to work on that if people want it sooner.

The current Nostr dev setup has many limitations. Pubky seems a breath of fresh air where the leadership enable developers. It would be good to see nostr get back to innovation, or devs making apps that work on both protocols.

For some reason there is big, centralized, resistance to these use cases. If nostr integrated bitcoin. It could do NFTs, voting and many more use cases. That it has not happened yet, tells a story.

Comm has potential, but I see it as more of decentralized discord vs. a more general protocol for decentralized apps. I could be wrong. Homeservers and keyservers do appear to be similar concepts.

i might try a PoC with federated or key servers, as you're right, Nostr a bit wacky with aligning the relays, but hope to launch MVP on Nostr ultimately

let's make it happen! it's weird tho, Bitcoin folks are very financially focused, not much happening governance-wise, and Ethereum folks have built themselves a bubble, thus have little interest in Nostr since they use Ethereum for everything (like Farcaster for example)... i find it odd how insulated these 2 communities have become, especially since Eth was originally an outgrowth of the Bitcoin project