I've gotten many thousands of views/upvotes on reddit for screenshots of nostr posts and amazingly some of them don't even seem to get banned/removed.
But I don't see any sign people actually join nostr from these posts. My theory is nostr sucks too much, it's not that 0 people try a nostr app after seeing these posts, it's that 0 people feel like using the weak shit they find. Better apps & better onboarding still needed, devs keep dragging their feet on this for years because they're grifters who designed nostr to suck intentionally.
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2026-07-10 15:35:05 UTC
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