some sort of an external catalyst likely, but even so, i see the same cycle happening as we have already, just with new people and bit of variety to the past
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also i think that because nostr has such a small bubble of "bigger creators" who get most of the airtime, then nostriches have just gotten kind of tired of each other.
some (like myself) take hiatuses and return once in a while
others have spun of to groups on telegram and/or signal, and taken to other kinds of projects
some just left until further notice
you probably right. i guess when there was fewer people and less echochambers (or whatever its called) it was easier to find people and hold longer (and funnier) random, controversial conversations