Growing nostr is a multiprong effort. Using it is certainly important, but we must also get the content out. This could mean sharing it outside of nostr and not merely talking about nostr, though that also helps.

People come for content, interesting UX or other people.

New and interesting nostr apps will take care of interesting UX.

People need tools that enable easy content creation and sharing. That helps with content.

Joining with friends is more fun and bluesky came up with an interesting solution but for some reason nostr hasn’t put any effort into this.

Make it easy to join with friends, make it easy to create and discover content and to use nostr.

The last piece of the puzzle is being able to opt out of all bitcoin content. This is important because it can get annoying, especially now with the price action.

All of this has to be done together, hopefully aided by some other external factors such as platforms screwing up.