You are designing an incentive system. Presumably your incentive system is designed to grow nostr, which is great.

You are however at the same step in the process where companies spend billions trying to get people hooked using psychological tricks and black magic fuckery.

Distracting people is a great way to get them hooked and grow the user base. This is not however always in the best interest of the user.

What you're doing is wonderful and worth digging into, this is not a criticism. You're asking questions about what makes this place compelling, why do some stick around and others do not?

There is an existing set users on nostr who have choosen to stick around without an onboarding system designed to make it stickier. Who are they and why is that?

I'm still not entirely certain what this place is. I suspect I like it because it's smaller - so perhaps I am the wrong person to be asking about what we should do to make it bigger.