I think having some nostr marketing budget in OpenSats makes a lot of sense.

Just as an eg I suggested reaching out to someone like Jay Dyer who seems open to sponsorship, is already a bitcoiner - accepting on-chain BTC donations on his show. Importantly he is not enclosed in the bitcointwitter bubble and reach. Just as an example.

Unfortunately nostr has sort of got the reputation (perhaps not all the unfairly) of being a bitcointelegram group. Which is obviously slightly unfair seeing as nostr is more than the microblogging platform, but that is how people encounter it.

I think your right tho. Bluesky soaks up the people who want to boycott Elon and those who want the retro leap vibes of reliving Left Twitter 2010s. You know the kind of thing... Back in the day when posting 'be gay, do crime' was considered edgy or something (now your HR manager has a poster of it in their office).

I would also say substack plays quite a significant role in the 'good enough' lack of censorship, similarly to twitter. (But also have you seen the comments section of Instagram lately, they seem to be hands off to drive up rage engagement..?).

Realistically nostr will struggle to get numbers here with it being culturally predominantly a bitcointwitter offshoot. Unsurprisingly, not many people outside of the BT expat bubble won't stay for too long with the mostly monotopic environment.

Which is kind of why I think small step of appealing to the likes of Jay Dyer and his audience, the periphery of BT - the bitcoin-sympathetic is probably a good bet. Especially if you want more than people who turn up for a day or two. (I won't bother listing the waves of users nostrbhas had and lost).