Comment by kragen
19 hours ago
Are a lot of people using Nostr now? I frequently get recommendations from people to look at stuff on Bluesky, Twitter, or Mastodon, but I think https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45559138 is the first time I've seen anything posted on Nostr.
Every time I've seen a nostr trending feed it's been 100% cryptocurrency chat, so I assume it's only popular within those circles
Every post on alternative social networks I've tried is mainly advertisements for the platform you've already joined. Nostr as a whole isn't crypto, but this large instance seems intrinsically linked to Bitcoin, every account gets a wallet built-in[1].
[1]: https://primal.net/premium