> The claims are not mutually consistent

Calle himself is not super mutually consistent these days. First Cashu, then Bitchat, then this Claw stuff. Half-expecting bluetooth-powered Ugandan cashu mints that can solve for quantum gravity.

I'd advise against it, it's all about latency, discord voice is 90% for gaming, a world where 75ms latency is okay but 150ms is unacceptable. There's non gaming discussions, but a lot of them are just getting ready for a session, or post-session, you still need the session. Unless you put a big disclaimer do not attempt to use this for abcd, in conditions 1234, etc. I'd stay far away. Their voice chats, like those of Kick or Twitch, have over the years become just so insanely complex and latency optimised at every possible point.

Threads is booming though. The masses don't want decentralised social, the masses want to have fun with the limited spare time that they have. I can't blame the masses for that, people are free to arrange their priorities as they like.

He's talking about people you follow, not those who follow you.

I'm guessing nobody rugged anyone here.

99% of times on Nostr when you hear about how so and so rugged me (ICANN, Cloudflare, Namecheap...) what actually happened is just some clerical thing, forgot to renew the domain, credit card expired, didn't get the settings right, etc.

"bend the knee to political whims"
is this what we're calling following the law now?

Since 2009, lol.

I'm up over 180cm since birth! During that time my grandparents didn't grow at all.

The cause *is* communal.

not long from now that'll be fresh water

@Jim Craddock He's right, I checked, this is not a Wendy's.

It's churn. The problem with getting more than 1% of bitcoiners using nostr is that a huge chunk of these potential users have already churned through nostr. The nostr churn rate is insanely high, for non-bitcoiners, but for bitcoiners too. A big chunk of the bitcoin community on X has given it a kick of the tires. Zooming out, hundreds of thousands of bitcoiners may have churned through already. So now you have to get them all back a second time, or a third time, it's almost impossible, usually you only get one shot with this, they don't come back for a second kick of the tires.

Bitcoin is killing nostr by making it unmarketable. The 99.x% churn rate is because of bitcoin more than any other factor. Newcomers are like "oh this is a bitcoin thing" and then they leave. Because they're not bitcoin people and never will be.

Nostr should never have made a faustian bargain with bitcoin.

If there is a nostr 2.0, it should not bake in bitcoin again.