I think people fail to discern the power of a sustainable network, vs the short term apparent growth.

Nostr has a sustainable community, and people are building for it like crazy. Never underestimate the power of those two things combined.

The problem with so many other social competitors is that they never create an atomic network. They just try to get as many people as possible as fast as possible and trap them with algo engagement bait.

This is not and cannot be how Nostr works, thus its adoption won’t look like how platform socials do. It will look like protocol adoption. And we have an atomic network, there is a group of people who have adopted it and aren’t going anywhere, and who will never trade it for something less.

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“There is a group of people who have adopted it and aren’t going anywhere, and who will never trade it for something less.” 🎯

These other networks you describe sound like shitcoins.

It is a good point. 0% of nostr users are here because they got moron-funneled into signing up for it or are trapped here by cynical attention engineering.

It's here to stay but likely to stay in the minority akin to Linux. Tons of Linux users and people building but will remain in the minority

The thing is, we will be able to do things with Nostr that can’t be done with other centralized platforms. This isn’t just a competitor that looks similar to the other options. This is a protocol where numerous things that literally no centralized platform can offer will be widely available and easy to use.

Nostr will win because it will simply be better. My experience in the Nostr verse is already so much more seamless and earns me way more sats per unit of time invested than anything else I do. This is super early stages, we’ve barely gotten started.

hope you're right, but skeptical

The fact that there’s no other place where you can get zapped 1000 sats with practically no friction from anyone in the world ought to dampen that skepticism.

Go somewhere else where you can do that. 😘

I'm with you, I am. However, the "herd" seems to favor "free with ads" or subscriptions to eliminate ads, versus zapping everything. Most people are not for liberty, but like their golden prison cell.

This could change "generationally" if younger people get exposed to nostr and prefer it or see it as the "default" way.

Shots fired at Rumble

Nostr is built different…

On boarding Normie's, OFF the FBs etc is the challenge..

I’m optimistic 🫡