Interesting feedback and rant quoted below:)
I wonder what Reddit was like to begin with? It must have been quiet. What number of active users do you need to reach to make a thing like that feel active? What the hell is the network effect lol? What wizardry is this???
There are obvious differences with nostr. Reddit probably spent money on marketing(?)
Nostr is amongst a lot of competition.
One of the strengths of nostr is that from the very start it had a community to tap into: b!tcoin twitter, which it could attract from and have as beta testers p much (is how I'm reading it anyway). It also might be the biggest weakness of nostr, it has a very fixated topic and ingroup jokes and language which new comers outside of that group find off-putting it seems. (Actually even some of BT find it off-putting.)
It's a p decently-sized problem. As I've said before.... Newcomers will forgive jankyness, clunky clients, they may even think ah not now, I'll come back when that's fixed. Newcomers see a one topic obsessed social media and the solution to that isn't so obviously fixable. And I don't think zaps are the solution to that, people do seem quite content on not being paid, see Bluesky even.
It'll be interesting to see the solutions to this #asknostr #grownostr
