I'm not saying there aren't things we can do to improve on this, but I don't think there is any straightforward thing everybody is doing that we are refusing to do because we're dumb or even because Nostr is limited.
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Primal sidebar is the worst example of what is going on here, and it reinforces the situation. Bitcointwitter 'celebs' are basically the tone and taste setters on here atm.
New users are sort of forced to pay their rent in bitcoin posts if they want to get reach, whether they want to or not.
I'd quite like to see the nostr meta totally change. It's been like this for ages.
For starters you could have a client with a sidebar which downgrades or totally ignores bitcoin 'content' (usually an unfunny meme or slogan). Perhaps taking into account the follower numbers for what is deemed 'trending' ie a post with 70 likes from an account with 30k followers would not be 'trending'. This is why you have banal 'trending' posts on primal, these are read-receipts ( and zaps).
Yep. NOSTR is hopelessly boring.😵💫 (But I still haven’t lost all hope after 2 years🤷🏼♂️)
Discovery is hard.
But I'll say, I'm not a fan of follower count chasers. I don't have a ton and I don't need a ton. I understand most of them are bots or dead accounts. I don't want people to follow me unless they care about what I have to say.
I've found, the only way to have a good, meaningful experience on any social media is to poke around for a while, find some people that you really like what they have to say and would like to talk to them, start doing that, then follow the social graph a little and continue to do that. If you also have interesting things to say people will follow you, and eventually it snowballs. I think, out of all social media I've tried, nostr-as-mocroblogging has been the most rewarding. Meaningful conversations, consequential ones, thoughtful ones that I learn something from, genuine people, an all round great place.