The people that say "We need a Telegram replacement" are the ones that are **not** using Simplex (or even Signal) yet. That's probably because the whole ratchet, super secret aspect is terrible UX for them. Doing more of that, but worse, on Nostr isn't going to be very attractive to them. And even less to the Simplex users.
What can be attractive to both groups, however, is the completely novel experiences that interoperable relay-based groups allow for:
Ownership, Organic discovery, Infinite content types (that all have a reply section), friction-less payments (price lists, bill splits, zaps, ...), etc...
nielliesmons / Niel Liesmons
npub149…g722q
2024-10-14 08:14:32
in reply to nevent1q…ngq7
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npub149p5act9a5qm9p47elp8w8h3wpwn2d7s2xecw2ygnrxqp4wgsklq9g722qPublished at
2024-10-14 08:14:32Event JSON
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