There was a video of a nostr presentation the other day that I don't feel like digging up, where a point made is that you're not going to compete with Instagram by being Instagram. It's network effects that must be overcome, not UI supremacy. The UX for most of those apps sucks. Do you want a better UX? Sure, but that's not what is going to beat them. They're dead if and only if people can't reach a wide range of other people using them.
The other side of the statement that you don't compete with them on their own playing field is, you have to create something novel. Some new way of doing something. Some irresistible change in a paradigm that people would rather use nostr than silos. There's a lot there we have going for us. The big ones are censorship resistance and cross compatibility.
One thing I love about nostr, it is easier for me to create a "blog", soap box, online presence than building and hosting a website, and it is easier than even setting up a twitter or Facebook account. I can just generate a key, pick a few relays and start saying things. I can keep track of my "blog" either having a separate key for that, or pinning those sort of canonical posts. The only thing that's harder I guess is securing and keeping track of keys, but no harder than securing and keeping track of secure passwords, so the only reason it's harder is because people aren't using secure passwords, which means as someone who already does that, it's not harder at all.
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