I asked a friend who’s been using Lens what’s happening over there. They’ve got a similar issue with one primary community of users to Nostr, except theirs is Polygon maxis and ethereum related web 3 folks. 

First off, I think we’re in better shape than Lens. 

“On Lens, however, there is no meaningful algorithm in place across the main front-end clients to perform this function. Whether you’re using Hey, Butterfly, or Orb, the content you see often appears randomly, without any logic or personalization. Even posts from people you follow frequently fail to show up in your feed, forcing users to manually check each profile for updates.”

That’s just bonkers. At least in Nostr our follow graph and chronological feeds work pretty well. And with DVM we do have some apps which support plugable third party algorithms. 

But beyond that I encourage folks to read the whole piece.  Because the author goes on to say that discovery for content creators is a major problem. If you join how do you build an audience. With Nostr you do it by commenting on other posts and eventually having folks with an audience repost your content.  It works, but not well, and mostly pushes folks to post about bitcoin and nostr instead of posting about other stuff just using bitcoin for zaps and nostr for publishing. 

https://app.t2.world/article/cm1yqjrly57217420mcprv6us4l 

 I think the closed/restricted entry to Lens also might have siloed them into having a heavy presence of web 3 folks?

I'd be curious how Farcaster is doing relative to Lens. (I have a very minimal presence on Farcaster, but not on Lens.)