Mostly, yeah.
Most people have never heard of nostr, but those who have already think of it as a bitcoiner social network, with whatever stigma that comes with.
When we actually manage to get new users, they realize pretty quickly that Bitcoin (or nostr) content makes up a majority of what actually gets engagement.
I think this is more of a filter than a hurdle.
This is what keeps Nostr focused on the right things.
I think the filter might need replacing.
1. 10k+ daily active users is an achievement for a protocol that is basically just a Twitter clone with a decentralized tinge to it.
We can't even post gifs straight from the keyboard yet.
2. This is only 6months of data which can be noisy.
3. Daily actives are the noisiest of data here; it's weekly actives that make more sense to look at it & that is >40k trusted pub keys.
4. If you care about decentralized social media that chances that youre also interested in Bitcoin is super high.
5. People don't care about decentralization & censorship resistance for the most part; for now.
6. Bitcoiners will grow in number, Nostr will grow in numbers - neither pattern has been or will be linear.
