People who say this like its a bad thing don't understand how to bootstrap networks.

100,000 users on a network talking about 100,000 different topics dies in a matter of days, because there's literally nobody to talk to about *your* topic and no cohesion at all in the network. 100,000 users in one community is a solid network.

Look at every successful network in history, it *always* starts with an atomic, self sustaining network around a single community or purpose.

- Amazon. Only sold books.

- Uber, Lyft, and pretty much any rideshare service. All got a critical mass in ONE city before expanding.

- Airbnb. Started exclusively and got success in San Francisco.

- Napster. Started with almost exclusively music

- Facebook. Exclusively Harvard students

- Twitch.tv started as just one guy streaming his life and then targeted gamers.

- Pinterest, focused entirely on "mom-bloggers"

This list goes on and on. What he is describing is literally *the only way alternative networks are ever successful.* So contrary to the idea that this is bad, it's actually the only reason Nostr is still here. Because you can find most of the best bitcoiners, tons of great holistic lifestyle content, and cypherpunks wanting to build awesome shit.

That's actually a fantastic start and we should LEAN INTO THIS MORE, not steer away from it. We do so at our own detriment if we just complain about and fail to embrace the community we DO have.

- Tinder. Literally grew itself locally one frat and sorority party at a time.

You love to see it.

CAN YOU TAKE ME HIGHER

I don't see how the world avoids a population collapse at this point.

The actual numbers are pretty clear; the world was rugged by money printers and all of it's gnarly knock on effects. People are living for themselves now, just to limit misery.

The ruling class seems to be seizing the moment by expanding automation and looting nations by selling governments wartime upstarts like genetic experiments, geoengineering, fake food, and digital crowd control systems.

Malthusians have only poured fuel on the fire by undermining fertility via dietary poisons and environmental estrogens, even exploiting pandemics to accelerate death and destruction via vaccines and lockdowns.

Central banks have made people so poor that RFK Jr has to focus on sugar and food dyes because nobody can afford a food economy without seed oils. Housing is made out of popsicle sticks+chemicals and people can't afford those either.

What will remain is a fairly large peasant class and a more exclusive, moneyed population.

This is the least talked about subject but it is probably the single most impactful thing happening right now.

#GreatReset

> Today, globally, women of childbearing age have an average of approximately 2.2 children over the course of their lifetime. In pre-industrial times, most women could expect to have somewhere between five and ten live births throughout their lifetime; however, the demographic transition then sees fertility rates fall significantly. Looking ahead, it is believed that the global fertility rate will fall below replacement level in the 2050s, which will eventually lead to population decline when life expectancy plateaus.