I'm a little sad about these reporting the numbers posts .. for a few reasons.

1) bsky and other centralized platforms knows who is connected (nostr can't know this and can only estimate roughly number of posts, *not active users),

2) shenanigans in boosting numbers for marketing are well known and botted to hell and back (nostr kindly tries to exclude these and does no marketing for our numbers)

So if we keep playing by these 'rules' it'll always be a disappointing headline. We need to measure other stuff, like zaps.

Breaking news, nostr has 1 million daily zaps, bsky zero zaps!

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Can you tell me more about “(nostr can’t know this and can only estimate roughly number of posts, not active users). Why can’t nostr know active users? or users in general - bc active is subjective

Because apps would have to report when you're scrolling and not posting..

it can only be an estimate based on observed events, similar to block solutions versus mining attempts

there is an inherent survivorship bias in that what you see is only what gets out not what goes in between inception and getting out