> I don't know fundamentally what's changed since then. My biased hunch. Excess talk about AI and bots, and nothing dramatically improving including momentum, just more slop (which in general as a community we avoided over the past 4 years or so) and no real cooperation or users feeling like their requests were being listened to. That's just on the dev side I think. cc @7fqx

There doesn't seem to be a response to the bots this time around, as compared to eg "ReplyGuy". It's definitely less in your face and disruptive than ReplyGuy but it's basically left as Not A Problem, but it's definitely a problem lol and more insidious. The devs fell in love with the agents. But this was a fantasy (Adam Curtis voice...). No one has bothered to alter the 'nostr meta' (I can't be bothered explaining it again, not worth explaining, it should be obvious by now,... See Primal if clearest example). Growth is still 'convince more users from bitcointwitter to join'. Those who wanted to join have joined already. And the bitfluencers actually put interesting people off anyway. (Related to second point). It's been quite obvious, and you'd think free marketeers would get it. Guess what the marketed didn't want or need? Bitcointwitter2. Yet here we are :)

I also think the change from Nothing Ever Happens to Something Happening has got a lot of people on / back on / more on Twitter. Seems to be the case with people I know and seems to make sense, it's still the breaking news platform (despite all the ai slop). This isn't really a criticism, unlike my previous post. I don't think nostr can or perhaps even should try to compete with that (I really don't know). That's just the way it is.