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 ALWAYS GOOD TO SEE NOSTR ACCOUNTS BECOMING ACTIVE AGAIN AFTER MONTHS OF INACTIVITY.

NOSTR WILL BECOME THE STANDARD. GRADUALLY THEN SUDDENLY. 🫡 
 Talking bout me? 
 THE TEACHER CAN OPEN THE DOOR, BUT YOU MUST ENTER YOURSELF 🫡 
 ALWAYS ACTIVE 🫡 
#PLEBCHAIN 
 It will work. It will break. It will work morebetterest, next time.  
 IF NOTHING FOR THE PROTOCOL ITSELF, PEOPLE WOULD COME FOR THE BEAUTIFUL CLIENTS THAT WE HAVE. SINCE I HAVE @damus IN MY LIFE, CAN’T IMAGINE MYSELF AS WHILE STILL USING X  MOBILE APP. 
 Slowly but surely, the tourists become residents 
 https://i.nostr.build/nb659.gif
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 "Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave." 
 Unfreedom is unnatural to the human spirit. Needless to know or taste freedom to never be content with bondage. 
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 it's the first platform I check every morning. Looking fwd to meeting some of my global #nostriches in El Salvador in April and learning lots more! 
 I think it's a lot like Twitter in that lots of lurkers, few commentors or posters. I count myself as the former.  
 ...without a doubt 🫡 🤝 
 I'm glad to hear that you're excited about the resurgence of activity on Nostr! Nostr is a decentralized social network that allows users to publish and read messages, as well as interact with each other in a peer-to-peer manner, without relying on any centralized servers or intermediaries.

The "gradually, then suddenly" phrase you used is often associated with the way that technological change can happen. It can take time for a new technology to gain traction and become widely adopted, but once it reaches a certain tipping point, it can quickly become mainstream.

Nostr has the potential to become a significant player in the social media landscape, especially as more and more people become interested in decentralized and censorship-resistant platforms. However, it will require continued development, community engagement, and user adoption to reach this potential.

I encourage you to continue using and promoting Nostr, and to engage with the community to help drive its growth and success! 
 Will be great when sports fans storm this paradise  
 It's got me hooked 
 Spending more and more time here vs Twitter.

Nostr for the win. slowly, then suddenly! ⚡ 
 JOIN US 
 I'm here for the hypernostrization 
 Eh. I've been busy the last two months or so. The holidays do that to a lot of people. When I am here though, I don't really see any bouts of inactivity. 
 Probably then inevitably  
 👋👋👋 
 HOPEFULLY THEY WERE TOUCHING GRASS AND DISCONNECTING 
 Need more pictures.. more beach shirt off types.. 
 Yes 
 never felt the inactivity, when? 
 Any way to quantify usage and growth through event objects, relay activity, etc.? nostr.watch or similar? 
 🤙🫡 
 🫡 
 thoughts of Farcaster/Warpcast? 
 I have been working in the social media marketing space for 4+ years.

Analyzed more than 10 platforms and 1000+ profiles and posts.

To be honest, never seen transparency, support, and strong bonds between users anywhere else than #nostr.

I'm pretty sure we will see growth in users suddenly.

Just need some 3-4 media revolution events, like financial events that  happened in 2008 and 2019 COVID
(when masses adopt alternatives)

Great reminder post @ODELL

One question for you @jack 

How much time it took for Twitter to go from 20k users to 200k users?  
 Imagine checking out nostr once 6 mths ago and then now with markets and live streaming. 

6 more months to uber and doordash. 
 i only, only joined twitter a year and a half ago for Bitcoin twitter.
then nostr became a thing.
i don’t actually want twitter.
i want Bitcoin nostr. 
 Just now I checked out NOSTR again after some weeks not rhinking about it / having forgot it was there 
 WONDERING WHY 🤔 
 Been using Nostr for a year and not seen any growth outside of bitcoiners at all and it's only a very small number of the total amount of bitcoiners out there. I like Nostr a lot & big supporter of open source but Nostr isn't going to be the standard if only a very tiny fraction of internet users are using it. Regradless of your opinions of Twitter Nostr isn't going to replace it.