Well, to be fair he is trusting an inaccurate graph - stupidly.
A major factor is how relays have gotten better at spam and flooding mitigation. But old data often isn’t cleansed.
Certainly two major spikes and currently consolidation, transitioning into incremental growth at present.
Yeah I thought that data looked suspect. Seems like that might be an ongoing issue on this protocol. Lack of accurate data
He's using https://stats.nostr.band/ - is there a more accurate place to find nostr metrics?
Is there a better data source out there than nostr.band?
Well the truth is unless we KYC all accounts we will never know.
It’s funny, when you built tools to protect against censorship, you also lose a single reference point. The network is no longer homogeneous or has a single truth.
Without getting into ‘what is an active user’, because that has to be defined well first, and is different from current platforms who track reads/logins - what even is a user?
There are lots of bridge bots who rebroadcast content from other networks. They seem like users - but are they? You’d think not, but they appear real in data (ignoring subtleties). Minds broadcasts from their network to Nostr.. it’s real users, just another access method - but users don’t necessarily post Nostr events directly.
You can measure derivatives, like relay active connections, unique posts a day, paid NIP-05, or paid relay users, ZAPs, etc.
It’s late and I don’t claim these numbers are directly meaningful, however I have 17MM events, with very little spam. And I have 100,658 users with > 10 events and a name/display name set. 366,000 with > 1 event (and name/display name).
The Damus Nostr Account has 164,186 followers - and all new app users follow that account by default.
If we legit hit 700,000+ active users four days in a row, I have no idea how.
