Well, nobody 'controls' Nostr, it's designed to be beyond anyone's control. What I'm seeing is a free for all of development where anyone with an idea and the skills is trying their hand and trying to tap into the streams. There are thousands of apps out there that could be forked and brought into the Nostrverse, which is fun to watch.

But, what I'm also seeing is a lack of overall vision. Most people are trying to identify market niches and building what they know, and very few people are looking at the overall structure and trying to encourage the building of foundational layers that themselves can be built upon. I'm sure if anyone IS doing that and they see this, I'm probably wrong, but all I have is my own eyes and my own limited feed. And that would absolutely prove my point.

Nostr, at least to me, is a information sharing application layer. The principles are strong, with distributed storage and retrieval of posts and content. What it lacks is not people, but a reason for people to come to this network instead of the ones that they are already using. In the old days we'd be talking about a "killer app", which is why I think so many people are trying to do just that. I think differently, and what I believe we need is a "killer foundation", something that Nostr can utilize, add to and become part of.

I have A vision for how it can do that. I just don't have the skills to make it happen.