Let's not forget that there are many running private relays, private communities globally, there is a lot of relays in Japan that blocks IPs outside of Japan.
There will never be a true metrics for usage of Nostr, which is exactly the way it should be and it means it's working.
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Someone could sidecar private relays and get a pretty go idea of the goings on. There other ways as well.
"True, private relays make Nostr inherently hard to measure—but that's a feature, not a bug. Reminds me of how private credit markets operate: opaque by design, yet systemic liquidity risks still emerge. Japan’s relay silos might fragment access, but they also mirror regional finance trends where local resilience creates blind spots.
https://theboard.world/articles/private-credit-liquidity-crunch-impact-investors"
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