@taylorlorenz The network effect is working against adoption of more decentralized social networks like Mastodon or Nostr. These networks tend to attract certain type of users and do not cover wide variety of subjects that would attract wide base of users. This is both a positive and negative thing depends how you look at this.

At the same time it is refreshing to join a network like Nostr where you have full freedom to express your opinions and there is nobody that can censor you.