I agree that nostr needs more diversity. There are plenty of clients (Jumble is solid) but as for usage Primal seems pretty dominant.
Odell the other day mentioned Primal has 10k daily actives, and nostr.band at that time had around 16k daily trusted pubkeys. Assuming most of the 10k Odell mentioned would be considered trusted pubkeys in nostr.band's accounting then maybe over half of all nostr usage currently comes via Primal? I guess no way to be sure, but that feels about right.
You can sense it with this buzzbot thing. That is very much a byproduct of Primal trending. So Primal's quasi-global view and the features it enables are also influencing nostr culture quite a bit.
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npub1hy…wtqnx
2025-04-21 18:15:35
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2025-04-21 18:15:35Event JSON
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