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There are various issues, i was just stating the one that impacts me the most, as someone who goes out in public to discuss Nostr.

Nostr is way too small to even use the word reputation. Pick any megachurch in the US and more people will attend services at that one single megachurch than are on all of nostr. Bluesky is a pretty small network and it's 100 times bigger than Nostr. Nostr is just teeny tiny, all this back and forth you'd think there were real userbase stakes here, but there aren't.

It already has a bas reputation. Hundreds of thousands have tried nostr. >99% ceased usage. The proof in the pudding would be comparing Primal's retention rates to the whole ecosystem

We have actually had that happen, repeatedly. Whether it was them being too slow to moderate malicious spam on their relay, the website going down, the relay going down... Always resulted in a mass-exodus of people who couldn't figure out how to adjust by moving to other clients and relays. The users with the most staying power seems to be my "generation", which arrived after the initial building phase and before Primal, so that we tried out different clients and figured out what relays and NIPs are, and stuff. It was a steep learning curve, but we're much more resilient. It felt like learning how e-mail or SMS or telephones worked, before everyone used WhatsApp. The Primal onboarders are clueless and helpless, like the WhatsApp onboarders. If Primal goes down, they think Nostr is down. If WhatsApp goes down, they think all mobile communication is dead.