I think just let it happen. I do think people who connect with their communities online via "community clients" will convert at some rate to nostr as a whole once they organically discover it. This has always been my thesis about communities, and in a sense it's a marketing tool, but the difference is that it puts the interests of the user first. Nostr shouldn't be a solution looking for a problem, it's ok if adoption is slow. But also, people with a following going nostr-only is probably the other big lever.
Discussion
I dont disagree with what you are saying.
What I am saying is there is an existing problem of people turning away from nostr who have joined nostr and not found their people.
This finding is discovered and perpetuated outside nostr, which I believe to keep people away as a second order consequence.
Oh, sure, for that I think better discovery tools would be the way forward. Mapping of topics to people in a decentralized way (I attempted this with nip 32 collections) would get people started, and web of trust would bring them the rest of the way. But you're right, the people have to be there first. So again, I would just say let it happen, we'll have ven diagrams overlapping with bitcoin at first, but it'll expand.
was thinking along similar lines.
I wonder if there if there might be a Venn diagram onboarding tool:
“Show me the intersection of Christians and homesteaders”
“Now subtract people who talk about the price of bitcoin”