I get the point about scale, but we’re mixing up growth with arrival. Healthy networks don’t show up fully formed. They take shape through shared culture, trust, and repeated interactions. Humans evolved in tribes of about 150 people. That’s roughly the maximum number of relationships we can genuinely maintain. Beyond that, systems need time to build norms, roles, and identity before they become something larger.

Nostr is still in that tribal phase, and that’s not a weakness. It’s how meaningful systems always begin. First you get depth, then diversity, and then scale is a side effect. If you jump straight to “big,” you get noise without connection.

Bluesky and Mastodon don’t introduce a new mental model. They feel like the social apps people already understand, just with different plumbing. Nostr asks something different. It changes how identity and connection work. That shift takes time because it creates culture before it creates scale.

While this is true, the truth is that the bitcoiner discussions here are better than discussions on larger networks, this can be true for any topic.

The main issue with decentralized platforms is that people willing to build community like on Reddit also want to control community. In a system that resists control your ability to attract weirdos who will put in the work and not have the power of a mod is rare outside of freedom tech. It will happen though, just will take time.