The convo in my timeline a year ago was usually you, #[4], #[5], #[6] and a couple of others hacking on our own projects (i.e. posting “test” posts all the time). And some memes and bots. It’s wild how much more people are on here now and how insanely much better the clients have become.
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There is an interesting difference. People who join nostr 3 months ago are complaining that less and less content on nostr and start saying "will nostr die?" while users have been here around a year or more are surprised how fast this community is growing.
Yeah, I remember rooting around with branle wondering if anyone would answer me. With a little persistence I stumbled across a few folks who said "hi" from time to time. Some were willing to help with my initial struggles with WebSockets and other junk. Bit by bit a few more people, like you, entered my sphere.
Then came the period where we all tracked the global feed and said "welcome" to any new person who showed up. Some of them stayed. One by one my little local sphere grew.
Then we hit the knee of the curve.
Now there are thousands in my local sphere and hundreds of thousands (at least) in the global feed that I have no hope of following.
>From: 0xtr at 04/15/23 08:41:02 on wss://atlas.nostr.land
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>The convo in my timeline a year ago was usually you, #[8], #[9], #[10] and a couple of others hacking on our own projects (i.e. posting “test” posts all the time). And some memes and bots. It’s wild how much more people are on here now and how insanely much better the clients have become.
rip your local more-speech db😂
But I have to say, sorry fiatjef, branle is really difficult to use. It definitely show me how difficult to be a programmer.🤣
I don’t think Branle has been maintained for a good while? I haven’t used it for a long time but I’d imagine it isn’t optimized at all for the kind of traffic that nostr has today
Branle was the jump-start. Would there be a nostr now without it? I doubt it. In those early days it was the only tool I (and probably many others) had to make contact with other nostriches. (before we even knew that word.)
>From: 0xtr at 04/15/23 10:16:10 on wss://atlas.nostr.land
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>I don’t think Branle has been maintained for a good while? I haven’t used it for a long time but I’d imagine it isn’t optimized at all for the kind of traffic that nostr has today
Yeah it becomes public archives this Feb. I think fiatjef’s intention is making a demo that nostr can be used to build Twitter like app.