So far the it has been trending the opposite way. Twitter and Threads are growing, adding more users every day than the entire user base of nostr
When you want to reach a lot of people then use twitter or threads or any of the "popular" networks. When you want to express your opinions without interference, use #nostr.
As more and more people start falling into that latter category, the weight will shift towards #nostr.
From: (udi) at 07/15 08:15
> I get more reach and engagement on threads with 3,000 followers than nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m gets here with 150,000 followers
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> When I want people to take action I have no reason to come here
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> Thoughts?
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f*N grows faster when N is very large. The base of #nostr is small compared to twitter and threads; but the f for #nostr has been very high. Irrespective of that, however, is that the motivation for using #Nostr is different. For those of us who want control over our words, and our ideas, using #Nostr for that purpose is important.
It may be that the "popular" networks _always_ have more users than #Nostr. That's OK with me. I don't use #Nostr for reach. I use #Nostr to communicate without the impediment of censorious overlords who think they are smart.
From: (udi) at 07/15 09:39
> So far the it has been trending the opposite way. Twitter and Threads are growing, adding more users every day than the entire user base of nostr
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I really do care about reach. It’s the only reason I use social networks, to reach people from outside of my network.
When I communicate with people within my network, I prefer encrypted messaging apps.
That said, I’ve always been an Uncle Bob fan and really happy that I was able to reach you here, so maybe nostr is useful to me for reach after all! 🧡
How do you know the user base of Nostr?
From: (EndWEF) at 07/16 05:35
> How do you know the user base of Nostr?
It's a distributed network, so there's no definitive value for the number of users. stats.nostr.band has some interesting statistics based on watching a subset of all the relays.
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