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Jack only wanted to make an alternative to twatter... in other words another place where people can fight online for nothing.

People looking to nostr as a social media protocol, they are wrong. Nostr is something different.

I suspect that at the beginning of Twitter or Reddit the posts were relatively low effort/ quality. People are people afterall, and most of us are dumb. The curious thing is that nostr had a initial burst from bitcoiners interested in decentralization and then it got a burst from Jack and yet it still didn't thrive. BitcoinTalk managed to thrive -- was this because it was the only place to talk about bitcoin? 

This cold start problem is not exactly new. But it may still be a mystery. Bitcoin kinda made it through the problem, nostr probably hasn't -- SN certainly hasn't.

Scoresby

STRC, ETFs, and custodial accounts, is not very much.

This isn't even custodial money, its shares of bitcoin that never moves that you don't have the keys for.

Perhaps. There seems to be less energy in Bitcoin in general (everybody is pivoting to AI, right?)

They are not pivoting to AI. They are pivoting to buying AI shares... That's what they are pivoting to.

It seems to me that Nostr has never gained any real world adoption and the devs involved are feeling the realisation after all these years of grinding

Because the interface is terrible, the only interesting thing on nostr is esoteric bitcoin technical discussion, and you have to 

 for that, and most of the conversations and posts are very low effort/low quality especially in the last year or so.

nostr

Is Nostr imploding?!

npub1zapsats

>  STRC, ETFs, and custodial accounts, is not very much.

This isn't even custodial money, its shares of bitcoin that never moves that you don't have the keys for.

What's the point of that?

> Perhaps. There seems to be less energy in Bitcoin in general (everybody is pivoting to AI, right?)

They are not pivoting to AI. They are pivoting to buying AI shares... That's what they are pivoting to.

> It seems to me that Nostr has never gained any real world adoption and the devs involved are feeling the realisation after all these years of grinding

Because the interface is terrible, the only interesting thing on nostr is esoteric bitcoin technical discussion, and you have to *look* for that, and most of the conversations and posts are very low effort/low quality especially in the last year or so.