nostr is like a weed, it will persist because of the fact that no other protocol has enabled real decentralized social networking, and the stubborn hard core who will be nostr or death are not going anywhere else, most of us, the elders, perhaps you might call us, who have been in internet social networks since the 90s, will all say the same thing:

every social network gets captured, nostr lacks the levers that let those all get captured

sure, maybe some cluster of relays and clients will get captured, but there will always be the dirty wild proles outside the gates of the walled gardens, and we will run our own relays and build our own clients, with our own time and effort and mainly for ourselves and to enable connecting to other stubborn bitches like ourselves

it is true that social networks can be unhealthy addictions but when the control levers are missing, the harm is less, and the benefits greater because they are not being squashed to trade off for the interests of those who want to shape opinions and feed off advertising budgets