wow why move away?
Discussion
because it's a full time job that costs a lot in resources to maintain, and I don't see a path to making it pay for itself.
I'm more interested in sparking flows of information that people wouldn't otherwise find. protocol level analytics seems too zoomed out for me at the moment. but I still love it, and am open to hear if there's a value to it.
Is there better stats of nostr than yours?
absolutely: https://stats.nostr.band/
I'm only collecting kind 0,2, and 3, and not even all of those (for instance, paid relays are an issue here).
Wow
I think the main value proposition of twitter was always that it allowed us to ignore social connections. I remember feeling like I was getting away with something when I could find all the most interesting people maintaining open source projects and follow them on twitter, and actually interact with them. it was the opposite of facebook at the time, where you had to know them in real life. I think the innovation cycle has moved on, but the value of connecting flows of information beyond people's social circles is still incredible important, but I want to see more long-form content there. I think blogs and podcasts are the right media for this, with the npub being the new equivalent of a domain name. I want to follow someone's blog (NIP23 posts), and be able to reply to their posts from my npub, and see any other similar content they put out. and be able to browse who they follow, etc. but have less exposure to the fast moving, twitter like message threads. this is information annealing, let things cool slowly to form big crystals.
/rant
understand. talk more irl nxt.