My guess is the bitcoin investors and influencers that are invested in these apps see it as a way to increase bitcoin adoption, and they don’t particularly care about maximizing nostr decentralization. they see it as an acceptable tradeoff. Or maybe they just don’t realize it? It is kind of deceptive so maybe they don’t know. I point it out occasionally but i never get a response, so maybe they don’t want it pointed out.

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Both plausible. I sympathize with running a VC fund. There is a 100% certainty some portfolio company is going to go left when you want them to go right. And the fund doesn't benefit, nor is itconstructive, to call out those decisions (mostly). Would it be more accurate to call such a product as nostr "app" instead of a client?