Oddbean new post about login | logout More than half of Nostr gone
But your feed would be improved 200% 🥳 Not but seriously. I think yes you're right. The feed would be slower, almost a crawl lol. HOWEVER the problem people have isn't the quantity of posts lol. People can imagine the technical side of Nostr improving. Let's say a client that's a bit janky. That is very easy to imagine an improvement. It's far harder to imagine a whole cultural shift, like a more varied group of subcultures joining. And a feed full of bitcoin actually does give that impression. 'This place is for bitcoin chat.'
Twitter and Google Plus had similar beginnings. Timeline was full of webdev and blogging stuff and a lot of meta talk. I think Nostr could undergo a similar transformation. Then today's superstars, the Nostr developers and the Bitcoiners, will quickly fade into the background, and other stars will emerge.
It's possible. I think things are somewhat different to when twitter /Facebook first emerged tho. There's been a lot of fragmentation into fairly rigid clusters, especially with the growing interest in social moving to less publicly open private groups. It's arguably a different scenario to when twitter emerged. There's also social media fatigue (or whatever you want to call it) as a factor now. People looking at early twitter probably saw how it could very easily draw people in, how subcultures can start forming and flowing there. Lots more options now. Lots more of a sense of balkanised groups. Or something? I still think it's possible (and has actually already happened to some extent with Meshtastic, permaculture, siamstr.) it's just perhaps not the same circumstances