That’s the part of Nostr you can see because of who you follow

Yep. The average person still thinks that bitcoin=scam. So when someone like that joins nostr and sees that the overwhelmingly dominant topic is bitcoin they nope the fuck out. A drum I've been beating for a while now is the need to have some clients that don't have bitcoin/lightning integration and...

In that regard, does Nostr depend on Bitcoin, or does it only use LN for zaps?

I get much less bitcoin related content in here that I used to on twitter. These days someone started posting again about the halving (halvening?). Aside from that I get a lot of tech related news, fire memes by nostr:npub1lrnvvs6z78s9yjqxxr38uyqkmn34lsaxznnqgd877j4z2qej3j5s09qnw5 and nostr:npub1grk...

You’re right. When I first came here 3 months ago. I made an intro. as I was building open source at cardano before nostr. I think it’s nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424, who commented “bitcoin only” 🥲