eventually the "muh adoption" crowd are going to realise that nostr is resistant to forming a global

Yeah. Agreed. Interestingly, traffic to my personal relay has increased substantially and it does look legit. I'm not sure how Nostr.band stats are calculated. Do they count events written to smaller relays? Otherwise each client that switches to the Outbox model, like Amethyst did recently, will make a dent on nostr.band stats. PS: Not dismissing the fact that a lot of folks left Nostr and that onboarding new people has been quite difficult.

It is possible, wot.shaving.kiwi is down all the time from too much traffic. Thanks, Vitor! Now I have to move it to a beefier setup.

Unless an exodus of almost biblical proportions happen I would not attribute this sudden drop to people leaving.

Nostr.band has been having trouble for a few days now too. It might have something to do with it. View quoted note →

This could probably part of the reason too. Many variables.