I actually think the tipping mechanism in nostr helps. It’s so easy to send someone penny’s people will start paying others to say nice things and that will attract more participation.

I know there are people like that, but that just feels weird to me. I get it for content creation (art, music, code, video, etc) or other things where people have to put in time and effort or provide a community service but have costs to offset. But literally paying someone based on what they say just feels alien to me. Maybe cuz I can’t think of it in terms of IRL interaction without imagining someone paying people to be friends with them.

I agree that the deplatforming concepts in nostr seem to have the right idea or at least are actually trying to solve that unlike fediverse.

Accessibility and UI/UX hopefully they will catch up on soon but I worry about the network effort though. Even for fediverse, compared to Twitter/Reddit/Facebook Fediverse traffic is a drop in the ocean. Nostr seems to be a drop compared to Fediverse traffic currently. Not saying to drop them cuz they don’t have numbers or anything. Just that I worry about things like low-adoption leading to eventual stagnation of development and more isolation in terms of thoughts/ideas (cz less people).