success is subjective

We're not a product, we're a protocol. We don't need 50 million users to break-even. None of this stuff really costs anything...

I think it would be disngenous to say nostr is successful (so far at least). Sure it has "successfully" shown it can make clients and work in theory (with a small userbase at least). Or whatever but that isn't how anyone would be interpreting that statement. Nostr hasn't caught on at all, it's not even know to many people outside of bitcointwitter. It's not even fully known inside of bitcointwitter. Which is a very very small subculture within another platform. None of this makes a case for nostr being successful in any meaningful way, subjective or not. My criteria for nostr being successful is that people post the 🫂 emoji. Nostr is successful. Nope

I think of success of nostr in terms of it reaching people and catching their imagination in a significant number. And so far it hasn't really done that. I don't think anyone's really tried tbh.

I define success as "less than 100% of the people I say Nostr to in real life don't say 'What is Nostr?'" Not quite there yet 😂

I don't see nostr as a product either btw, but let's just say nostr remained at this level of usage, would you call it successful? I'm not even thinking in terms of twitter or bliesky-sozwd usage. I think it does need to attract and inspire more people tho.

Irl or online. Basically no one on twitter knows what nostr is.

(I don't count bitcointwitter as people)

👍 Irl or online. Basically no one o̶n̶ t̶w̶i̶t̶t̶e̶r̶ knows what nostr is.