>”If there were better tools to understand more about where new users come from, that could be valuable, but again, with our philosophically/ideologically freedom- and privacy-conscious user base, I’d bet that a nostr client loaded up with Google analytic tags would be a non starter.”

Thanks for your interest. Nostr’s is free NOT because of walls around its data, but BECAUSE of the lack of them. In fact, nostr data is THE MOST transparent, accessible, trackable, and aggregatable data of any social network. The fact that everybody or anybody can host and transport the data is what keeps it free from being contained or controlled. 

I know most people even in nostr don’t get this, but we will. Algorithms are not our problem. Black boxes and lack of choice is the problem with the search and feed algorithms of big social. Nostr will demonstrate that freedom to choose your search and feed algorithms does more to secure privacy than keeping data locked up in walled gardens.

If and as more people see this, I think a transparent and openly developed metric for tracking user interactions on nostr will be the least of our problems to tackle. 

But I do dream.