Popularity is sometimes a proxy for quality. In a busy world manytimes we just turn to the popular choice thinking it is probably popular because it is the best.
None of us are immune. I probably put too much weight on this metric when choosing rust libraries to rely on.
Likewise, are #nostr devs and the Bitcoin community ignoring #freenet, #i2p, and existing #P2P technology that is even more decentralized than nostr is? Nostr is great, I love the zapping ability, but zapping ability could be added to these networks. I hope these networks talk to each other some day (for example, nostr for social graph and text, send media content to freenet for hosting/bandwidth), but I see a lot of recreating the wheel going on.
