I know a lot of you are feeling depressed about declining growth stats on Nostr, but on the bright side, at least it seems like the full-time Xitter people have stopped showing up to drop their occasional bad takes.
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I think (hope) the world will catch up. Nostr isn't an end goal... It's an evolution... You know what I mean.
But yeah. A touch dishrartening that Bitcoin and Nostr aren't massive in normie world.
I don’t care and don’t notice. I gave up all social media for Nostr. I don’t have anything to compare it to. #nostronly
Nobody outside our little bubble really gets it, and I honestly don’t know how long it will take until they do. It wasn’t $100K, that’s for sure.
Ask anyone on the street about bitcoin. They’ve either written it off or think it’s the same thing as XRP.
Very true.
A guy at work, after years, keeps asking me about XRP. 🫠 Says he keeps seeing some guy on Linkedin talk about how it's going to replace Bitcoin.
Yeah.
Nostr, BTC and freedom exist for those wanting it.
amen
JFC 🤦🏻♂️
We just gotta get more weird, and build some fringe apps.
I know a lot of you are feeling depressed about declining growth stats on Nostr, but on the bright side, at least it seems like the full-time Xitter people have stopped showing up to drop their occasional bad takes.
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I just see more and more landscape being built out on Nostr rails. Throw into that the interoperability with #cashu, obviously Ln and privacy tools.
To me it's growing 💪🎯
Having started a Tutoring business on Nostr, I know for sure we onboarded one new person, of not two, who found out about our tutoring from someone who shared about it elsewhere.
I don't know if they'll be super active, but at least one will need to come back weekly because it's how we communicate with our clients 😎
I know nothing about Nostr stats other than that 🤣
If there are less bots, I'm fine!
I prefer keeping it small and like minded.
cant be me. keep nostr weird! 🤙 🕺
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This community punches so far above it's weight. Love it
No I’m still here guys
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Nostr’s quiet now, perfect for actually building stuff or just shitposting in peace.
declining growth stats?
I thought this place has been lit...
Don’t feel depressed at all
True capital allocation with our attention, where can you go wrong?
Growth stats are irrelevant when on a long enough time horizon combined with the inability to switch an npub off
I noticed a decline in bots.
That might be what's making it look like the growth rate is declining.
Honestly media hosting is the biggest issue.
Primal limits how much you can upload.
All the other clients are too complicated for non technical normies.
People need a better starting point.
And finding people worth following when you first get here is difficult.
I know someone that put 40k into XRP.
I keep telling him to swap it. He doesn't understand. It's 100% pre mined shitcoin.
He's trying to tell me it'll go to $10 and it doesn't follow the same pattern as "all the other cryptos"
I'm like yeah that's because the ripple corporation prints more xrp whenever they want it's a shitcoin. It'll never go over $5 because ripple prints more to sell every time it goes over $4 and drives the price back down.
Ripples entire marketing is that xrp will be adopted by banks and replace dollars and Bitcoin.
They're trying to make out like ripple will become the global central bank.
Shit makes no sense.
Greed makes people gullible
i like your Dgaf energy.
i tried setting up somebody on Nostr recently. they wanted to follow topics. i could just give them my follow list or the follow list of one of my follows that I know won't get them in trouble.
i'm sure what they are looking for is on another client, and I probably need to break out of the walled garden of my follow list to find other people.
i also need to up my Nostr skills so i can figure out how to set up topics for other people.
i think what i'm getting at is my own comfort has limited my nostr growth, and it's probably time to step out of comfort zone. this is a feeling i'm getting recently.
He’s right that it doesn’t follow the same pattern, because in every other instance, the scammers have exited with their lol-gotten gains long ago and moved onto the next scam. XRP is truly unique in that the scammers are depending on a literal cult to fall for the same pump-and-dump along with fresh suckers during every bitcoin cycle. That’s the innovation! 
(And no, “lol-gotten gains” isn’t a typo. It’s an accurate description.)
You are here; I am here.
We are here. 🫂
Their is a proof-of-work component to Nostr use
You have to go and find the content
You are the algo!
Proof of work is a good way of putting it.
Also by dgaf, I meant I like how people create here without worrying how big the audience is. Somewhat like comedy club vibe right now.
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I legit haven’t noticed less activity. Have you seen this in your own network or just specifically stats from somewhere? 🤔
Stats according to nostr.band are on the slide. My own network is strong, but not really growing quickly. I’m also not seeing as many #introductions posts anymore.
Hmm, if it’s true that new people are no longer making their way here, I would suppose there’s an element here tied to the fact that the login/key process is still clunky and intimidating.
No normie is going to safely and intuitively use Nostr with the current state of the key system. But it seems a ton of people are hand waving this away or acting like it’s too hard or not important to solve. 🤔
Obvious it’s not the only thing, and there’s plenty of reasons the network cycle may be in a bear market, but I would gander that plays a meaningful part.
There’s always a plus side. Sometimes the plus side isn’t on your side.
We kinda shut the door behind us with WoT
What else could we have done though…we were under a spam attack.
Slow and steady wins the race