> Why aren't more people switch over to Nostr? I know Nostr has seen “meteoric” growth [1] and it's easy to find your old twitter contracts again [2] but somehow Hacker News is very quiet about this open protocol and all the various clients and implementations [3].
It seems that lots here need a lesson about how network effects work in order to understand why little to no one is interested in moving to such niche social networks which appeal to only weird techies, furry garbage or crypto zealots and bitcoin maximalists.
Both are hopelessly utopian and don't even have a slither of a chance in beginning to challenge Twitter. Nostr might be too early to tell but I already don't like where it's going with its over ecclesiastical preaching of bitcoin. But we have given Mastodon 7 years, and that is enough time to conclude that it has failed to challenge Twitter or even take off.