Is it me, or did a lot of people I am following stopped posting on nostr and activity is going down?
I haven’t posted about it yet, but my data is showing activity numbers have dropped from the two major peaks and is still declining.
I’d like to understand it better. Was it bad experiences, was it not valuable enough, was it too many apps, was it hard to get started with following and relays and apps and pubkey storage?
I don’t know. But all growth comes in spurts. Not too worried.
I suspect spam on global made it difficult to just passively lurk. Lurking is a big part of the social media experience. You don't want to speak until you know who you're speaking to.
If Iris didn't have a good client side way to filter spam, and participate in any/all relays openly, but with a decent global, I wouldn't have gotten as hooked. Other clients seem to focus on Followers only as the experience, or paid relays as a solution, and those fail the user, in delivering a social experience.
