Joe on Nostr: There are many scorecards we could draft up on which nostr gets an undeniably higher ...
There are many scorecards we could draft up on which nostr gets an undeniably higher score than the others. But then it's back to the nos-Fermi paradox of Where Is Everyone?
There are a few common ways I see the nos-Fermi paradox explained—or glossed over. Someone says "nostr's great", you ask "well were are the people then?" the answer you'll get might be:
-We don't talk about that here
-Nostr band's stats are a lie (spoiler, they're not)
-It's just a bootstrapping issue
-It's just a marketing issue
-Nostr is destined by the heavens to follow the trajectory of Bitcoin (and definitely not destined to follow the trajectory of anything else) so let's all just sit back and watch destiny unfold
-Nostr doesn't need users (i see)
-All protocols have build phases and growth phases, we're in a build phase now.
-This is a 20 year mission and we're only in year 3
-An event will soon occur that results in an influx (though unclear why no events of the past year have been influx-triggering in this way)
Whatever the answer is, while all these fediverse and Bluesky and X scandals are going on nostr's growth remains flat. (The absolutes from nostr band stats might have some question marks around them, but the 6 month trend-line should be useful.)
My take is that it's a use case issue and that nostr has more immediate growth potential in the business world than in the town-square world. I'm guessing your take is that it's in fact a marketing issue? Which if so I could see as legit—it's true that there is a lot of stuff inside nostr that would be of interest to a lot of people outside nostr if they knew about it.
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