Please help me list #Nostr advantages v centralized social media. 1. Censorship resistant 2. FOSS 3. User owns contacts 4. User owns content 5. User picks algo 6. User choose app 7. User picks relays 8. User picks moderation 9. Zaps 10. Web of trust What am I missing?

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21seasons 2 weeks ago
You're missing the point, that the Nostr is not a social media.
Each of this strengths does come with a negative side: it's more work! Decision paralysis exists. Some people love choice. Many want a closed menu that saves them the effort of thinking, understanding, deciding. Onboarding on Nostr requires much more mental effort that downloading tiktok or other optimised, zero effort, algo-driven slop dispensers. It is much more rewarding to build your own network, but it takes time to do so. I don't think that we will get mass Nostr adoption for a while yet. Eventually a few opinion leaders will get it and then they'll bring their followers. But I don't see it as being anything but a slow process. The good news is that once you know and understand, you are here to stay.
Tell me more please. I've heard this argument before, but never properly explained. I'll accept a link if that is faster 😉