But it isn't. Because of the open standards you have other networks tied into Nostr and vice versa. Apparently Minds is networked in and obviously Mostr brings in the Fediverse. Its just that Nostr has even worse discovery issues than even the Fediverse.

I think Nostr has a lot of advantages over the Fediverse and in the long run would probably end up being adopted much more, I saw some guy trying to shoehorn in Fediverse interoperability to Gitea, the problem being that nobody wants to create an account on each and every Gitea or Gitlab site. Using Nostr identity solves the whole Forum / Git / Self-hosted whatever problem since normies will just be able to use the same identity to register at places.