I just realized people talk about "Android".
They know that many different phones and even other types of devices all speak this same "protocol" called "Android". They know that there are many different apps that can be used in Android but not on iPhones. They know that there are many flavors of Android, but that there is something that is the same underlying all of them.
It's not a perfect analogy with Nostr, but regardless of that UX specialists would have led us to believe that no one would be able to understand or care about such technical details, and that these technical details should be hidden at all costs, but they're proven wrong again.
Are there other examples of this phenomenon? I guess there are also email, podcasts, SMS messages, web browsers and HTML (although this is a bad example it's still valid).
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