the audience of nostr-as-really-decentralized-social-media is a pretty small one and most of the vocal nostriches have been oblivious to what this actually means. the audience for nostr-as-a-base-for-social-media in a general sense like how slack and discord and telegram are social media (as in, without the global feed of twitter/facebook/instagram) hasn't been even approached yet. there are a few of us who see this use case but most of us don't have funding behind us. i think that the architecture of nostr could be improved, i talk extensively about it and have done some work on some ways to improve it, but i think that in practice you can deploy the technology already, if you can find the selling point of the benefit of the simple, and easily replicated model of nostr relay, which mostly means designing various kinds of consensus protocol between nodes, has yet to be done. users don't care about the fact that their services are decentralized. what they care about is reliability, stability and those are things that nostr can deliver better, but not without these additional protocols to make redundant and fast content delivery. it will take time. the days of global feed, advertising monetised influencoor laden social media are coming to an end. people will like having the old style subject-specific forums of the 00s and 10s coming back. influencoor fatigue is a real thing, and will only continue to get worse as the tech reaches more people who were not interested in the popularity contest and TV substitute style.

It's a Bitcoin community client. I think that's fine, but I'm glad people are realizing that there's more than one community.

If amathyst had it's own dedicated media storage like primal i really think nostr would have about 100 times more active users