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 About a year ago, maybe a little short of that, we were hovering it around 10,000 active users per day.

On Nostr, it can be verified  🤙🏽
Do you know where we’re at today? 
 I THINK WE ARE PROBABLY TOO CONSERVATIVE WHEN WE MEASURE NOSTR USERS.

WE HOLD OURSELVES TO A STANDARD THAT THE REST OF THE WORLD SIMPLY DOES NOT. 
 Like you, I would rather see the pretty truth, then an ugly lie.

Unfortunately, the rest of society tries to tangibly quantify by popularity, follower count and active users. I

’m not sure what the threshold is for the slow and sustainable adoption, vs. ALL AT ONCE moment. But I’m certain that’s how it’s gonna go…

The best part about being early are watching the growing pains from other platforms, like blue sky is currently experiencing from the Twitter exodus.

We’re seeing what works, what doesn’t.
There is value to that 🫶🏽 
 It is a good thing  .. inflated numbers are inflated ego  .. always painful at the end  
 Normie‘s will continue getting rugged and lied to by companies and blockchains claiming to be decentralized.

This is part of growth.

There’s learning in the hurting 💪🏿 
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