Knots users say to 'run knots'. There are legions of them on Nostr and Youtube and Twitter although I suspect some of them are bots.

What happens when core 30 gets released? Well the degens will show up attracted to the very controversy that is being generated... and come up ways to 'gamble' on something in op_return it could be absolutely anything. A new NFT new crayon-drawing new token the possibilities are endless.

"Run Knots" which is effectively a relay policy could eventually shift to "become Knots"... our 'filtering' isn't effective and core won't budge. And once people are Running Core 30 it doesn't get un-released it's out there?

So influencers in the Knots space will eventually pivot to other solutions that invalidate the arbitrary data in blocks creating their own separate chain.

The ironic thing I think is that once they start 'invalidating' the blocks they will create more controversy... so the spammers will show up to the knots-chain too and find some way to speculate on something. Then I guess they hard-fork again? I don't know. The more you fork the more controversy the more spammers/etc.

If people don't speculate on your chain it means they don't care about it.