Good for them, but that's not nostr, it says so in the NIP01 brochure.
Think about it. A fun space that isn’t trying to be twitter (it being text-only would make that point obvious, if people know not to expect pictures and videos and link previews they won’t feel they should expect other things too).
And that has a personality, and that scales, and notes really are 100% self-contained.
And you really do own your profile but nobody cares about some lifetime web of trust building nonsense, if you lose your nsec no big deal jump back with a new one, a whole fun culture evolves around nsec respawning, you don't need FROST or some other nonsense just to keep your nsec safe forever, nobody cares about that, that's not what this thing is.
And super cheap, cause no media. No CDN of any kind.
No DMs of any kind, no giftwraps, no MLS, no quirky relay auth, none of that, just kind1 text notes, shortened text links, and outbox, and nsecs that nobody cares too much about losing.
I honestly think that ridiculously simple nostr could scale to 100 times more users that this nexus of complexity we have now.
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I think you're describing a specific app more than a protocol.
I think it would be cool, but at every point in your vision there will be people wanting to do something slightly different, and I think it's nice that the protocol is flexible enough to support these things.
And we could just say "no, that is not Nostr", but then people would do the things in a worse way that isn't interoperable and creates centralization that may be fatal in the long term (it is happening everywhere already, but much less than it would if there wasn't a culture of standardization and interoperability around). Maybe you don't care about any of that, but I do.
Anyway, Nostr can be used just like you described and that doesn't hurt the other use cases, nor vice-versa (maybe a little bit, but that's inevitable).
In any case, I personally think the vision you describe (even if I think it's cool) would have much less appeal (can you imagine? even less than today!) than the current idea of a multimedia everything-interoperable Nostr, and, given that Nostr needs 10000x more people than it has today in order to be useful in any way to the world, restricting Nostr to that (even if it was possible) would be a bad move.