Re-reading my comment, I see how it could be misunderstood. I didn't mean to say nostr failed. But that it failed to achieve the level of decentralization that Bluesky did. You can still build self-sovereign apps on nostr, but it is certainly harder than it should be and 99% of the nostr apps completely miss the point of nostr.

I think it's too early to say that Nostr failed

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Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters

Amazing news!

I hadn't looked much at Bluesky before, but now I just did, and I am very impressed.

It seems like what Nostr should have been, but failed.