A lot of people are looking for an alternative to Twitter and Meta at the moment. And both are now charging for blue ticks.

The way I put it to a non-bitcoiner is "it's like Twitter without ads and algorithms but it can do a lot more as well, a lot of cool new stuff is being built for it, and instead of paying for a tick, people can pay you if they like your content, and you can support creators you like in the same way, it's private with no need to send your ID and no middleman and it works instantly."

The fact signing up to Nostr is as easy as generating a keypair and doesn't even require an email makes onboarding new people real easy too.

And I make clear the option to send/receive payments is optional for people who aren't interested in that side of it, to address the non-bitcoiner thing further. If someone doesn't want anything to do with bitcoin they simply don't make a LN wallet.

Of course the community is dominated by bitcoiners and that can be off-putting to the normies but not much can be done there really, aside from hoping that other communities grow organically over time.

Still I am super bullish on Nostr purely because of the rapidly organic community of not only users but builders who are coding such great stuff so fast. I've never seen anything like it in recent years. Feels like web 1.0 again.