As #nostr gets into hypergrowth cycle - 20 % per month - (greedy) corporations would want to get a piece of pie - just like AIX , HP-UX and Sun Solaris tried to tap into Unix market ..
It is not necessarily bad if you see
- Xster
- Instastr
- Whatstr
- Telestr
- Ditstr
They will offer their users dual option - continue using the legacy backend - or move to their #nostr Relays .. same feature but an option to see your content through likes of #Amethyst #Damus or #Gossip
Such moves will be driven by greed - Identify the users in legacy application - tie it to their free expression on #nostr side .. they will be forced to do it anyways - to stop their tech talent from fleeting .. a barrier - "best of both worlds" types of rationality - which is basically BS ..
Anyways - no one can stop history from repeating .. one thing is sure - out of this churn - finally something like #Linux would emerge - an operating system of internet ..
Specs are hard to foresee at this moment - but I have a feeling - this new system will be 90% #Rust and the communication protocol would be p2p - #mashtastic ???