nostr was never alive. it never had organic growth — only imported spikes (the Twitter exodus, the Damus launch). People stayed for the ideology, not for the people. But networks live on relationshi...
One more thing: protocols die differently than products. IRC has been “dead” for thirty years and still runs. Nostr can idle along forever as niche infrastructure — key-based identity, zaps, relays. Dead as a product, undead as a protocol; it just never delivered on the promise of replacing Big Tech.
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