demographics. the bitcoin crowd is highly technical and so focused on development. To many of the uninitiated, most are speaking an archaic language.

Platform growth is aligned with incentives. Why do females from Asia ages 15 to 18 join Tik-Tok? - there is a social component in the physical that is unseen in the virtual world. One of those moments is when the classmate of a 5th grader, shows her phone to her classmate IRL, and sees their friend dancing. They like it, then kids from other schools like it, then it goes around. This intermingling of demographic factors plus the tangible reality is a phenomenon not easily observed by developers.

Nostr is its own niche - So today, as it is finding its niche and identity, such questions come to the fore.

Who will use it and why?

Who will developers make features for and why?

What will be the kind of content to expect and where does these content come from?

If this was a monolithic entity with a centralized decision-making apparatus, the CEO gets to point to which direction it will go. As it is now, it is community driven.

We still go to twitter - because that's where the journalists go post their news. They need it to sustain media revenue.

We still go to twitter - because for some reason, people post earthquake alerts there.

People are drawn to something because of what and more importantly - who is in it.