Nostr Web Client

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?

maciek 1y ago

The real problem is the flip side of that — new users don’t know whom to follow.

IMO recommender algo is essential for large scale adoption, because it lowers the barrier to entry.

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fiatjaf 1y ago

A recommender service that curates stuff on behalf of users and suggests that is a pretty good idea.

The throwaway term "algo" is not really a good one because it means different things from different people and often it means a centralized thing built into the protocol.

maciek 1y ago

Whatever you call it, a recommender system like this naturally drives centralization. It doesn’t need to be (and shouldn’t) on the protocol level, though.

fiatjaf 1y ago

Is it worth the cost?

maciek 1y ago

I don’t see how critical mass can be built without it

Satoshi Fawkes 1y ago

Do we really need to follow a lot of people?