It's interesting to hear your narrative... I came to Nostr in 2025, never having used microblogging before. Like any small new internet thing, Nostr is culturally dominated by SW Developer voices. And SW Devs look at problems as nails to solve with their "SW" hammers. So the solution is, "what haven't we built yet"? But that's not the problem, and I think your narrative points out why. 2023-24 was pre-Trump. The people who were engaging with Nostr at the time were doing so when they thought that they were all going to get censored off the internet. Well, now enter 2025, and Elon's tripping balls on the Dais behind Trump's coronation. "DADDY'S HOME FOLKS, BACK TO X!!" The people who left throughout 2025 did so because *they don't see a problem* with the current system now that Trump's in the WH and Elon's running X. They don't see the problem with the fact that Catturd gets an algorithmic boost over the NY Times. The system we *need* to be making inroads with is Mastodon, because that's actually the only decentralized social media that has gained anything resembling traction. But the bridges are defective, poorly maintained, and generally shunned because of the political culture there.