Just finished the monthly follower purge. Been noticing something for a while now and curious if long time Nostriches see the same pattern.
Nostr seems less like a platform people abandon and more like a builder’s workshop people graduate from. The accounts that go quiet aren’t usually disillusioned. They’re fragmented. Someone builds something real here, it gains traction, then suddenly they need presence across multiple platforms because their project demands broader reach. The Nostr account doesn’t die, it just becomes one of five they’re juggling.
What I keep seeing is ideas and tools that eventually make it into broader society tend to incubate here first. Small, high signal, no algorithmic manipulation. The prototype phase happens in this space. Then when it needs scale, builders scatter outward to find their full audience. They’re still here, just diluted across platforms.
The community stays tight and niche not because we’re insular, but because we’re perpetually in early stage mode. When projects mature past that point, they have to go multi platform. That’s not abandonment, that’s just how building in public actually works at scale.
Maybe what looks like exodus is actually Nostr functioning as designed. Not the destination, but the launchpad. The primordial soup where things start.
For those who’ve been here since the early waves, do you see this pattern too? Or am I rationalizing attrition?
Genuinely curious what others observe. #asknostr
