Ignoring the public square, outside of North America ALL coordination happens on WhatsApp.
Moms groups, traffic police groups, raw milk, bars, doctors, lawyers, etc...
Facebook, Twitter, signal, iMe...
FB private groups are close second to WhatsApp... but still meta monopoly on coordination.
Signal functionally identical but never hit critical mass because of 'muh network effects'... perhaps that's part of the problem, more security wasn't a selling point coz people thought WhatsApp already secure.
So an alternative would need to offer similar coordination functionality and ease to the Meta tools, but have enough differentiation beyond that to not end up being Signal 2.0
Clearly nostr offers enough variety, for clients to add enough 'other stuff' - like "yeah I know you prefer WhatsApp but you can also publish longform/join zapathons/post notes/log in across multiple platforms/ join zapathons/do v4v within your groups/join zapathons etc
Signal functionally identical but never hit critical mass because of 'muh network effects'... perhaps that's part of the problem, more security wasn't a selling point coz people thought WhatsApp already secure.
So an alternative would need to offer similar coordination functionality and ease to the Meta tools, but have enough differentiation beyond that to not end up being Signal 2.0
Clearly nostr offers enough variety, for clients to add enough 'other stuff' - like "yeah I know you prefer WhatsApp but you can also publish longform/join zapathons/post notes/log in across multiple platforms/ join zapathons/do v4v within your groups/join zapathons etc
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