First cleanout in two and a half years. I only removed npubs with no name or profile pic left. Still holding hope that Nostr will have its renaissance and those inactive accounts will return.
Reimagining the internet and social media in a way that isn’t exploitative takes time. Just because it didn’t click for everyone straight away doesn’t mean it won’t. We’re still early, and there’s a lot worth building.
It's just hard to compete with the network effects of established players like Twitter.
The product needs to be easily 5 or 10x better in the eyes of a normie and I dunno how this could ever be that. Maybe if this whole thing can also just import X posts into it or something that might bootstrap things.
Or perhaps just the various other services and products that use nostr also gaining traction might help...
But yeah I dunno, atm it is just too niche and it will remain niche imo due to the barriers and challenge of network effects.
Yeah, nostr is a slow burn. As governments get more desperate they will make traditional sites worse. If nostr keeps improving and growing a decentralised Git and app stores with web of trust it will provide a sound alternative when the time comes.
