I think this is the fuck around phase, where interoperability decreases. However, as the protocol matured being interoperable becomes more and more important.

I agree. Only been here a few months, but feels like the engagement has been falling off a cliff. At least for me.

Yes...feels empty. I agree.

Are you saying that you have been seeing followers drop off

Agreed, for “normal” accounts this have no use, for expanding Nostr it’s juat a bad idea to have those islands of content. Just tribes becoming more tribales. Closeness in an open protocol.

last week, noticed a slight drop every day since last week. 100% agree.

Aun así yo lo uso todos los días y en diferentes clientes

Probably 10% of the initial people I used to engage with are “gone”…they haven’t posted in months.

I genuinely hope they are ok (at least two of them travel and are fairly nomadic)

That being said; while I used to gain at least 1-3 followers a day and likewise discover a few new a day that I’d follow, that has almost come to a halt.

Periodically I’ll switch back and forth between YakiHonne (my primary client) and Primal just to make sure the feeds are aligned and it’s not a user error issue…

But for the most part, I do feel it has become a bit of a relational ghost town for me.

I’m even following my own early advice that since there is limited discovery tools on Nostr, the way to grow is by commenting on other’s notes and relationally engaging with them.

I’m reminded of this nostr:note1ftxt996ra03hjtzwe7q4pfc4walp0fw5eamlv9aw6w93xs39qvgqq5ysqp

Great note. Primal tells me there are 8 replies but don’t see them which i guess is making your point

true dat

It would probably behoove a client dev to make a simple kind usage list for each Npub profile.

Lots of kind 34236 events? Probably find their stuff on Olas. 30311? Probably Corny chat or zap.stream. and so on. Or maybe a self selected badge that links to open that specified client.

IDK, just spitballin'

What do you think? nostr:nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqpzamhxue69uhhv6t5daezumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcscpyug master of all features?

Seen this on Lens, devs build out, people flock to the new dApp, older one gets less traffic so people leave platform altogether or post less frequent. I am on several Nostr dApps and I see the same few . Also see a lot of different people on some and not on others. Confusing. I am sticking with Nostr and Olas mostly but I do like YakiHonne too. Supported/Paid for Damus and if Primal had it , I think I did that too.

The people you used to talk to are talking to the people you muted.

To be fair, the communities that I've joined and have been testing were all migrated from telegram

But ive also noticed what your talking about. For myself I usually don't respond to posts unless tagged in them.

I'm not sure why, but I think the lack of an algorithm means that I end up seeing posts that are interesting, but nothing that really gets me mad or what makes me want to respond.

I have started to notice this as well.

We’re early… don’t know how this protocol will pan out but I’m bullish 🫡

I agree.

I am navigating between nostr:npub1yzvxlwp7wawed5vgefwfmugvumtp8c8t0etk3g8sky4n0ndvyxesnxrf8q and nostr:npub10lasj0tuxuweddwhmucwnm6l458flnu6mqwk38meaxs5matjg4ssac0ywa because I cannot see the event published on Olas. Seems like that platform does its own things….

I think the fragmentation, although I hardly feel it, is good.

If nostr hit 100k daily actives with only twitter-like clients popping off, it would've lost some of the community feeling that a lot of us enjoy.

Nostr is excelling at being a place where you can curate an extremely customizable social experience.

Unified discovery layer makes sense too tho, or maybe linktree adapts to fix this.

I agree with this as well. Love NOSTR, love seeing all the DEV work and etc going on but lets face it, it can be one big echo chamber with the same message repeated everyday. I try and follow new people all the time but as you said, I'm sure there are groups of people gathering together to themselves eventually not paying attention to the general broader user base of NOSTR and it can get stale at times.

the trending posts on nostr are all people saying gm, someone who forgot to turn their oven on while cooking & this post complaining about nostr

When you have only a small amount of users, you'll get that feeling as new apps and use cases pop-up. If Nostr were at a critical mass and users will using all platforms equally, then it would most likely be immeasurable or unnoticed. However, since we are few, when some of those few use a different app outside of kind 1 content, you notice their absence. This is all fixed at scale.

For me it's how notes are shown. Different apps show notes in different ways. Some will only show you their posts, others mix in replies or separate those in a separate tab. Some show the replies on the main tab, but will also show the what their replying to for context, and I think there was one where it only show replies if someone you follow if it's a reply to someone else you're following.

another human slowly begins to realize what "protocol" means

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It probably also depends on the number of people someone is following. If you aren't following many people (single to double digits), you'll see everything they post. Once you start getting into hundreds and thousands of people you are following then you'll only see those that are loudest / posting all the time and those that only post occasionally will get lost in the noise.

Agreed 👍

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