Let's accept the fact that none of the Hive interface made it to the mainstream attention as of yet. And the worst part is that we promoted hive a lot. Yet none of the takers are out there that would get people to use the Hive. So during the brazil saga other social networks are poping out.
Nostr is a social network protocol that has the ligthning network protocol for the tips. And this has getting a lot of attention in the brazil. And people are moving to it. Which is kind of expected due to bitcoin's layer 2 in it.
Let's talk about How people are choosing the Nostr for freedom of speech in social network.
So brazil decided to have a fist match with the Elon musk. And it made the local people who are fan of the Elon musk hate their own nation and the govt. And in this process they got many US based sites banned. And this is kind of like viral effect that is keep on building here. Which is something supposed to change as well.
In case of the freedom of speech which was kind of killed out in this process. You can see that there are some of the decentralized content platform popped out you would learn how they became the option for the people.
Like Nostr, Bluesky, Solarplex, Publish0x and few others. Hive and STM was option too infact there are some of the users who choose to use it are there. And truth be told Nostr and Bluesky came out as winner.
Nostr: Anonymity
Nostr is trully anonymous. You get the lightning account, you get a Nostr key too. Wallets like Bluebird, Lifwallet, and few others are being used in this case to create new Nostr accounts. And those accounts also get the nodes too. So you don't have to host the Nostr node yourself or even get lightning node yourself for hosting bitcoin transactions.
Nostr: Zaps
Like Hive, you have the zaps on the Nostr. And this is giving you an option to monetize. Not a lot of people being rich there. But the thing is that you eventually get discovered and those zaps kind of start to make sense for your content and it is easier to get monetized that way.
Nostr: Freedom of Speech
If govt decides to come after you. Site can get banned and relay can get taken down. But you change the site and relay and then freedom of speech is back into the work. In short it becomes much similar option like Hive too.
Nostr is a good option for freedom of speech type social network. You can get tips too which you can move to bitcoin and cash out for some good coffee money or more.