FOR NOSTR TO BE SUCCESSFUL, THERE NEEDS TO BE MANY GREAT APPS.

IF A FEW APPS DOMINATE, NOSTR LOSES.

It’s possible that ODELL is mistaken here.
 One feature present in many networks is that the distribution of their nodes follows a Pareto distribution (from Vilfredo Pareto, a 19th-century economist). It’s quite possible that apps linked to a network like NOSTR also follow a Pareto distribution, meaning there will always be a small number of them dominating and a large number struggling to survive. “Many small events coexist alongside extraordinarily large ones” (Barabási, 2010, p. 102). This distribution is also called a power law. This is also how the node distribution of many social networks works: there are a small number of them, or hubs, where most of the connections concentrate and which dominate the network, and a large majority with fewer connections.
 Human activity is usually neither uniform nor random; it is bursty and follows a power law. In many cases, “No matter what human activity we examined, the same bursty pattern greeted us: long periods of rest followed by short periods of intense activity” (Barabási, 2010, p. 104).