Nostr feels like it's in a catch 22 right now. Nostr needs good content, but creating good content needs incentive. Will nostr have a "gradually then suddenly" moment, where all of a sudden it's the place to be and there's this massive influx of users and content? Or will it be slow and steady growth? Or will it simply remain niche among the techie crowd that likes to tinker (the "Linux of social media" as I saw someone aptly describe it yesterday)? Incentives like zaps can scale with enough users. But putting in the massive amount of time needed to build a reputation and repertoire of material is exhausting if there's no eventual growth and return in sight. Unless you're simply doing it out of boredom or have nothing better to do with your time, I guess. We can only say "we are early" for so long before we will have to accept that it's too late for Nostr if it continues at the rate it's going.