Eternal September
There's a culture on Nostr driven by both Nostr incentives & Nostr users (the people who chose freedom over convenience).
For it to go mainstream, the number of participants needs to exponentially increase. This will inevitably introduce new incentives & a new culture. Imagine active Nostr users doubling each week or two for months.
I guess I like Nostr how it is & I'm resistant to it changing.
The beautiful thing is that you have enough control over your own space that you can barely notice any growth, if you so choose.
Many cultures and incentives can coexist, only touching on the edges.
Yeah - the lack of algorithms shoving content in front of you does limit the impact (and growth ironically).
It would also be pretty convenient to have the majority of people using the same protocol for online communication.
I agree, I generally enjoy Nostr the way it is now. From a technical perspective I think there is still work to be done before it goes mainstream, clients still have a lot of quirks compared with centralised platforms.
I also don’t know that winning necessarily means going mainstream. From my own point of view Nostr has already won. There is a great community of similarly minded people with some shared interests and values which is something I haven’t come across in the same way anywhere else.
