It absolutely makes sense to at least have some kind of estimate of "how many people are using this every day?"
Nostr at 6,000 DAUs is a whole different thing than Nostr at 10k, 100k, or 1 million.
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Nostr 's key metric is how many clients are on the protocol .. DAUs are for the platforms ( clients ) .. #Amethyst is an X competition..
Do you ever ask how many people use TCP / IP ?
If there were major competing standards for global computer networks outside of TCP/IP, and if I were concerned about the success of those alternative protocols, then yes it would be a meaningful question to ask.
Even the question of "how many DAUs for the internet?" Is meaningful
DAUs on planet earth too make sense 😔
Yep, about 8 billion 😆
But there is no competing planet humans live on .. last I checked :-)
No one ever does census for entire earth .. the way we compute the total number of earthlings is by adding all the countries..
That is how #nostr should be .. add up all the platforms that support nostr .. and that includes ones like Fountain who respect nostr login ..