> I mean if this is true, we might as well pack it up and welcome the Future of Humanity: Broligarchs vs Eurocrats, forever.

Yeah... the only chance is through better culture, more understanding, forgiveness and these things.

> Nostr's a ghost town because nobody's heard of this. I mean, barely anyone knows what Mastodon even is, and they've got 1 million DAU's!

This sounds naive. Hundreds of millions of people have heard of Bitcoin, but it hasn't changed anything. For most, it's just a speculation tool to make more fiat. Instead of freeing people, Bitcoin became another instrument supporting the existing system.

Nostr will follow the same path. Either it gets absorbed and institutionalized by the system, or it remains small forever—a kind of demonstration project for the handful of people who actually care why censorship-resistance matters, serving mainly as proof to everyone else that they were right not to care.