It likely will get better with time, but I'll bet some of that comes from adopting similar incentives to what SN has.

SN is working on decentralizing. Territories were the first step on that journey. Attached wallets are the second. You can already cross-post to nostr from here, which I do.

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Sure, but more as the backbone of different web services. Fountain, for instance, is a nostr client and it's amazing.

For text based discussions, nostr clients pale in comparison to Stacker News, though, despite having far more users.