I'd argue that it stems from the mind viruses we got from fiat thinking, that creates this expectation that something needs to be adopted by critical mass user base in a very short timeframe. nostr grows with builders, building their idea. we don't know which use case is going to turn everyone. it might be cat memes, it might be freedom money. time will tell

i’ll start with my personal 4p that led me here: persona: i’m a startup founder (in the eu) with 10+ years in proptech. i had a bitcoin story years ago, similar to what @Derek Ross described once (“old discs turned into a multi-million dollar mirror”). i’ve always been into privacy and osint. problem: i never had instagram or facebook - it’s just not me. i like good conversations and interesting people. i tried twitter, but hated the ads (problem 1) and even more, (p2) the algorithms serving up the same quasi-influencer content (“ten ways to this…” and “what i’ve learned from…”). this led to a third problem - every social media platform today is a selling tool. if not through ads, then through influencing. ads are annoying, but influencing feels fake, and i don’t want that in front of my face. product: that’s how i ended up on nostr, probably through some article on @jack involvement. i read the paper, explored tons of websites (com, org, band, watch, you name it), and found @primal available on iOS. here i am. nostr promise: i see no ads and no influencers. value-for-value and full control are the promises that hooked me. if ads show up in my feed, i can switch clients. if i encounter annoying influencers, i can mute them. last but not least— i’m still short here, but i already like you guys. i enjoy reading your notes, discussions, memes. you’re a bunch of smart people, and that’s a promise hard to deliver on the web 💜 pv 🤙

> I see no ads and no influencers Literally 80% of nostr users are Bitcoin influencers.