One sign that you're not making a technology for the right reasons is when you have to fucking lie about it, or misrepresent others in order to compete. For example, Nostr (the protocol which currently enjoys zero million daily active users) says of Mastodon, "There are no clear incentives to run servers" — proving that this is, indeed, a protocol created by people who have no idea how to make friends.
Other highlights on their website, the list of reasons we need new technologies intentionally excludes mention of wide-scale, intentional, targeted harassment and abuse. In fact, enabling these hate campaigns is an explicit goal of the platform, which they call "censorship resistance". https://nostr.com/