Neither Nostr itself, nor client are services, but are tools; and this is perhaps a subtle but important difference with the legacy web/platforms. I think a lot/most users would benefit from being explicitly aware of that fact. Currently its something they might slowly get aware off the moment they start using more than 1 client, but i am not sure if it actually sinks in. Nostr really is not that complicated, it is just different. The whole paradigm of creating a publication, providing it with a signature and depositing it in places others can retrieve it, is something most humans can comprehend. Mostly because there is no abstraction, it IS the analogy. The fate of introducing a new paradigm is that ''onboarding'' means doing two things; getting people to use apps, post things, be social etc. on the one hand; but also understanding the landscape itself on the other. In the long run I think people are better off when they grasp the landscape/paradigm, because it immediately makes them less helpless and more confident in using the tools and navigating the terrain. Opening the new version of vnak made me wonder if it really takes more than an (guided) hour, or two, to give people a minimal viable understanding. For instance the ability to just hand-craft various types of events, provides a ''naked'' nostr experience that would demystify the interaction they have with clients. You only really need to do it once, and have a look at the JSON for a bit, to make it click that all a client does is make it easy for you to create publications and provide a nice viewing experience. Handpicking relays once, should make it clear that clients are nice enough to handle all that stuff for you in the background. Combine this with another (guided) session where people play around with

grimoire - a nostr client for magicians

for an hour, and i am sure they start to UNDERSTAND that platforms held them hostage; im am sure they start to UNDERSTAND Nostr means liberation.