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I had to read you a few times. I want to understand your point. Apologies. Can you be more specific?

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"To anyone except a Bitcoin Maxi" = you can't see this from where you're sitting.

"opening Nostr is like crawling into a hostel bed" = somewhere new and exciting, but a little rough and not very polished.

"that gives you hives." = nobody but a Bitcoin Maxi loves to read mad hopium and delusional prophecies about a fantastic investment opportunity.

"With a pair of Jehovah's Witnesses tapping on the window all night." = A fantastic investment opportunity with an army of self-proclaimed evangelists constantly trying to 'orange pill' you.

tl;dr: Bitcoin Maxi culture is incredibly off-putting to the general population. A maxi can't see that, so you'll start blaming nebulous non-reasons like 'natural ebb and flow' ...

Did we see less people trying to log in to Facebook within their first decade, or into TikTok at any point in their growth spurt, or Twitter in their first years? That's why I called `horseshit` on #[2] reasoning. We'd do better to ask questions and discover open-mindedly what's putting individuals off than blame nebulous inevitability of cycles that don't hold up beyond the first comparison.

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Derek Ross 2y ago

I've been there for the launch of social networks. I've seen the honeymoon phases and I've experienced the waves. You have slow and steady growth and then face melting weeks at a time. That's what I've seen here over the past month. It's no different than my experiences with Google+ being a day 1 user and watching it's growth over the first two years where I ballooned up to 4 million followers, when Google+ was a larger social network than Twitter.

This isn't all anecdotal though. I am comparing my personal profile growth numbers here along with the analytics we have on nostrplebs.com. I then compare them to things that have triggered waves. It all points to the same results.

That said, I am not a blind Bitcoin Maxi as you suggest. I know the problems with Nostr. I complain about them often. I am a power user. I need my features and I need them to work well. When something doesn't, I talk about it. Most people wouldn't stick around for the bugs or issues or lacking features. Those that stick around see the potential and see the improvements. They know that it's worth it to stick around.

Dave🐸 2y ago

Not the ‘1 week user salt’ that thinks only bitcoiners use uncompleted nostr

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