Well, that sucks.

Still centralized. And the protocol's userbase is still like 99% Bluesky.

I mean, while Charlie Kirk was a douchebag grifter who hurt people's feelings the United Healthcare CEO was an IRL vampire ghoul who actively harmed people's lives in direct and quantifiable ways wholly for greed. I don't think it's necessarily a good thing that people assassinate political chodes like Kirk but the world would be an objectively better place with more murdered CEOs.

Nostr is pretty cool. Just want to see better clients and more relays.

In comparing Bluesky to Nostr I'm specifically comparing the client/app/FE, as I said.

Bluesky, more proper, is (in AT Protocol terms) a whole platform: client/app, app view, firehoses, relays, PDSs, etc.. —All the moving parts that makes AT Protocol so incoherent and difficult to truly decentralize with self-hosting and independent providers (the only really viable self-hosting right now are PDSs, but +90% of users will never do this; There exist a couple alternative app-views, but nobody fully hosting out a complete AT Protocol platform as Bluesky is).

But, specifically, I'm referring to Bluesky as the client/app/web FE when I discuss it here. Their client experience and onboarding is beautiful and straightforward. Very palatable for new users.

I'll definitely have to check those out and do more research. I'm strapped for time right now but I earlier elaborated further on what I think is necessary:

🧠 Nostr needs:

🔸 Simple, functional, reliable, straightforward, elegant client that doesn't try to do too much nor pack in a huge amount of features. It needs to be straightforward, clean, and essentially just focus on micro-blogging and basic social networking.

🔸 A set of curated relays therein with an intentional focus away from the current extant Nostr zeitgeist/user-base (crypto spam, essentially; crypto fanatics). Focus on normal and organic user content that is more accessible to a wider quantity of users.

☁️ Bluesky has the client/app and onboarding figured out 100%. —Their stuff is totally polished, functional, and a joy to use. But, AT Protocol is de facto not-decentralized and Bluesky's zeitgeist/user-base is hysterical Western politics and general hostility/toxicity towards one another.

🐘 Activity Pub has a wide variety of clients/FEs which are also very polished and enjoyable to use. Primarily, though, Activity Pub has curated, generally, a phenomenal community and user-base. The zeitgeist/user-base on the Fediverse is great and probably it's strongest asset. But, from a protocol standpoint, Activity Pub is probably the weakest between AT Protocol and Nostr.

💡 If there is a way to code an app/client that delivers the onboarding and UI/UX of Bluesky or other Fediverse FEs, with relays and default community curation that incubates a wider community more akin to the Fediverse, all built on Nostr as a protocol, then I think this is a massively winning combination that can deliver greater network effect and traction to Nostr as a whole.

Nice! I'll try that. I'm trying out a different client now (more macOS-friendly) called Nostrmo and things are working better already.

Okay, yeah, we’re essentially seeing the same thing. So, good to know it’s not just on my end!