I've been playing with #Nostr. Despite the cryptobro user base the underlying tech is, in fact, not Blockchain based, which is nice. I like the idea of a serverless social network that stays afloat with volunteer-run relays. Very cool model.
Still, the user base is a hard sell. Here's the best description I've heard of Nostr internally, and it's not a motivator...
Bitcoin is baked into the protocol in a really annoying way. It's not mandatory to hold any crypto at all to use the network, so you could theoretically develop a client that cuts out all the crypto features, but it's clearly designed to facilitate lightning network transactions between users.
The decentralized end-to-end encrypted DMs are at least a feature of their own, if you didn't want anything else from a client.
