It would be easier for normies to switch too…but are most normies running multiple Nostr apps on their phones? Why not a Docker image / Start9/Umbrel/etc app?

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If you consider that there’s a point where it becomes unreasonable to keep cramming features into a single app from both UX and development perspectives, and also that nostr is flexible enough to be the engine of multiple platforms, then it shouldn’t be unreasonable to think everyone would end up having more than one “nostr” app. Even some simple case of having one app for notes and another for chats would be enough to match that criteria.
As for self hosting a server, or even worse, needing to rely on somebody else to do that for you, doesn’t seem like a barrier most people would be willing to climb. I personally think that some sort of automated arrangement of micropayments could suffice to incentivize bringing up more relays and funding “anonymous” ops, without bringing too much cognitive load onto end users. See @Keychat stamps for example.
Yeah I doubt that most people are running two separate clients. But because of the nature of Nostr with it's multiple connections, it's a technical architecture question that should probably be resolved..