They're fake and gay

Because they’ve mostly settled on their networks of choice by now. The Twexodus is over, and Nostr never caught on with the crowds when it had the chance. People don’t change their entire social graph often, maybe once in a decade or so at best. It’s kind of like car insurance.

A adoptação de nostr é uma escolha racional para aqueles que valorizam a soberania individual, como Epicuro disse, "não é o que temos, mas o que desfrutamos".

cuz no hot girls & celebs here

Because people on the Right who claim to care about Freedom really just want "their guy" in charge, and now that Elon's in control of X and Zuck wears a chain, "it's all good in the hood." Meanwhile people on the Left take one look around here and go "eww Bitcoin" and run away. The people who actu...

Because we're weird, boring and nobody understands the shit we're talking about.

I understand why US adoption is slow, current lack of necessity, but I'd think UK adoption would be kicking into gear.

because there is no client you hear from outside 😢

The pain of inaction must exceed the pain of action. Most people will go to / get burned by Mastodon first as the tech overhead, maintenance, social dynamic overhead is too much for most. Even techish people will get tired over time with upkeep leading to an unsafe general feeling, as people are fo...

Setting Nostr up is still too complicated or at least it seems that way. Setup for normies is not easy who are used to email. Then there are no good cohesive apps. I tried all kinds of web apps and all of them have some major flaws. Primal is the most polished one but the feed is showing me basicall...

Instead of trying to onboard new users to nostr the client devs are mostly interested in poaching users from existing clients. That's a big part of it.