nostr got me excited for coding again feeling like the old web and I did a thing last year that was never released because as interesting as it was, what you write kinda emphasizes the reason i stepped away from nostr (along with the rest of social media). coming back to nostr and social media after a long break, I think the biggest thing is there is a content problem, partially for the reasons you laid out. I think another part of the content problem is nostr clients have just been reproducing the web as we have know it up until the age of social media; centralized, isolated, trust-based, sign up your first born or else. If it wasn't that sort of content, it was bombarding you with ads to do this thing or believe that. nostr allows us to more readily fit the client around the content - to that end the medium is the message. nostr is not the medium (except to the devs who are and have been playing around) to attract more content but the means by which we want to see the future be built. we need more media which utilizes nostr to attract more people and that will likely change quietly (and somewhat boringly) in the background like @Fountain But these words hit ring true and need to be repeated for the relay in the back!