It's very much an echo chamber. Ultimately: content is king. It's kind of mindless to listen to a bunch of parrots going "zap?" "zap?" "zap?".

The news algorithm censoring everyone except those who say controversial things, which does actually contribute to the vitality addictive nature of Twitter. At the end of the day, your users are still human. That's something Nostr communities have to figure out. Until then, like crypto, it's a solution looking for a problem.