People will learn. And solutions will come. Look how far the protocol has come in 2.5 years. The pace is astounding. We already essentially have feature parity with Twitter/Reddit/YouTube & more. I don’t buy it that this thing fails, because it’s too complex or too small or that we won’t figure these things out.

People will innovate and improve the key management. Just like the community will bring “actually private” email to Nostr.

Every other implementation of ‘decentralised’ content, creates a single point of failure, plus is limited to social media use case. Sure, we’ll see people setup their own Discourse server or Elements server (by Matrix). The communities themselves will likely have their domain and hosting taken down. Needing to reupload elsewhere and communicate the new site to their community. The architecture is using old thinking, but the world is different now with Nostr.

Yes, it’s early and my comments may be a little shy of the mark, but Substack is really in great danger of becoming the next Myspace in my opinion. They depend on others to not squeeze them, when the incentives are there for them to do just that. You’re probably right that they’ll either try and exit by going public or they’ll create their own token and avoid Nostr altogether. That’s fine too, something else will fill that void they create.