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I don't think clients should assume everyone or most people are joining from bitcointwitter, although that does seem to be the case, it further cements the silo.

I think they do this perhaps unintentionally, perhaps slightly intentionally to retain those users. You see this assumption in user recommendations at onboarding and sidebars of highlighted notes. It screams "hello, bitcointwitter expat, look we have that Natalie Brunel here, and Carla, look Jimmy Song is here... everyone you love is here!" Which imo is totally alienating to anyone outside of this very specific bubble (and even some inside that bubble who are on bitcointwitter but have follows outside of that bubble too).

You also see this in responses to the problem people raise of not finding content. The tired response of 'just follow more people' you see in #introductions too. This might be fine if you're coming from bitcointwitter (maybe you want to see a dozen more posts per second of people saying 'stack sats and stay humble' and an ai image of a robot holding a bitcoin, I don't know). But this doesn't help someone looking for other topics. Twitter is bigger than bitcointwitter. People interested in topiary can find that content on twitter, or Herefordshire folklore, an expert in eel migration, or a cultural commentator, or their favourite ayahuasca enema philosopher etc etc. They can find that on wider twitter. No amount of following numbers will help that on nostr. It's not here.... yet. Perhaps recommendations of topic hashtags to follow at the onboarding stage, or RSS feed accounts... or just acknowledging it's not here. I think it's fine to acknowledge this to somehow retain at least a semblance of this not just being a bitcoin telegram group for bitcointourettes.

this feels so relatable.

i'm trying to bring different content here, but there's no real audience here for it yet.

i'm basically speaking into the wind, which is okay i guess but disheartening at times.

everyone here seems friendly but it's difficult to find *steady* content besides nostr and bitcoin.

there are some gems out there, but you really have to dig.

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Content-seeking and content-finding are both fairly low on nostr.

You can at least put content out there and follow hashtags in the hope that someone else is looking in the future.

The seeking everyone is required to do on its own. It is hard first. But once some good follows and hashtags are set up I think it already works.

There weren’t a lot of shopping malls on the frontier. That’s what being a settler/explorer is all about.

Thanks, I'll have a look but I think following specific topics and hashtags of interest has proven more fruitful, for me personally.

There's a significant amount of people wanting topic-based follows clients like forums /Reddit rather than microblogging/ following npubs.

Gotcha

Thanks 🥰