Relays are islands, that's where you'll mix around with others. #thenostr is never one place, and that's a good thing.

if you want to keep a specific narrative, you can do that but you cant enforce it on anyone not on your relay. But it really doesn't make sense to hold more users than you expect to be able to moderate.

If you don't expect to moderate, then you're not going to ban anyone and should expect a diverse spectrum of users and interactions from them.

i really think it works itself out regardless of the scale. It could improve by making it easier to show where different users are, but the baseline is okay for now.

Pretty confident nostr's popularity will come from onboarding through otherstuff. individuals will then recognize they can connect their accounts to microblogging, rather than the reverse.