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I really don't get the people that complain that they don't get followers on Nostr because there is no algorithm.

I never got any followers in any of these platforms with algorithms (even though I used them actively for years), except when by some unexplicable hit of luck some people started using @lntxbot on Telegram and by word-of-mouth it got to Alex Bosworth and he mentioned it on tweet and then my follower count slowly grew from 50 to like 5000 over a 3-year period.

Is there a magic trick that allows you to go from 0 to 100000 by gaming the algorithm these days and then scam your followers a high-ticket course about how to get followers and become a millionaire? Or what are these people talking about? Why do they even want followers in the first place?
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tanel 1y ago

folks want to convert followers into leads into profit

it's also why a lot of the folks aren't willing to leave X behind, due to the conversions they get on there

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fiatjaf 1y ago

You didn't even read my note.

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tanel 1y ago

strong counter argument

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tanel 1y ago

lack of algorithm wouldn't be a problem if indexation, categorisation and discovery of content was better

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fiatjaf 1y ago

Are these things good on x.com? Give an example.

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tanel 1y ago

they aren't and they don't need to be

that's what they have algo for

reddit is an example of something with both good content discovery + algo, with their trending/hot/top/recent tabs on both homepage and per subreddit

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BTCrevolutionary 1y ago

It’s not worth selling your soul to them..