It has a market for a regular customer base. But they try to shove it down everything just to see what sticks, and most of those things are useless at best or actively making the product worse.

who fall for AI /crypto are mostly conservatives

Let's separate these two things.

The latter does work well enough to be used by a kind of people. That it's not the new revolution is fine. I've recently looked through NOSTR NIPs and they make a huge thing out of functionality for sending "zaps", and you know why? Because payments mean possibility to send universal value for some subjective value. It's a difference in efficiency between barter and money almost.

I can't be proud of it, because, despite sharing libertarian ideas, I was highly skeptical of such systems. One can say I was gaslighted into considering it all having become a scam.

So - NOSTR looks like something that will work. Its standards involve a lot of different functionality, so clients usually decide to implement only part of it - some like Reddit\Lemmy communities, some like Telegram group chats, and so on (it kinda seems to even out with time, Amethyst has recently got group chats, for example). And thus it often seems devoid of life for new people. But it's already big enough for the search results to not seem particularly right-wing skewed.

So - I've noticed that people very often send these "zaps". It's normal to tip stuff in NOSTR. Already.

It's a long-term advantage, but that system in its architecture is far better than Fediverse, that's what I mean.

And honestly it's not unheard of for left-wing technical projects to use good tooling and competent people and appear impressive, but long-term lose to right-wing technical projects which use some tooling and some people and don't appear too cool, but are more applicable socially.

I really feel like trying to write a NOSTR client, LOL.