Is your goal to become an influencer? Why does this matter?
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My goal is to actually find people and have a conversation, but almost everyone just comes here to talk at those people.
Today was the first day, in weeks, where there's been any sign of life. It's been really lonely and dead in here. Just sitting in a corner, talking to myself, most of the time. Friggin depressing.
There's a word for those people...SIMPS
What are you trying to talk about?
I don't even remember, anymore. 😂
I kept responding to other people's stuff, but people don't write back. They just leave me sitting there, like an idiot.
Seems like you're a little hard on yourself... Just because people don't respond doesn't mean that you aren't saying truths or your opinion doesn't matter
Feels like it.
And, you know, it's the Internet. I can't see the other person. If they don't respond, I don't even know if they saw it. Can they even see me? No idea.
Go deeper though, do you need them to see it for validation?
Go deeper though, why would I engage with someone who doesn't validate my presence? That's literally what simping is. It's the opposite of having conversations. Conversations go back-and-forth, like we're doing, now, and everyone's statement is at least acknowledged, even if you disagree with it.
That used to be what Nostr was like. It's usually just influencers stuff, now. One-way speech. Like, that note coulda been a newsletter.
For me, sometimes it's enough to just get my thought out. Whether people resonate or care enough to respond is not up to me
Okay, but I'm different. I'm a very social animal. I'm here for chit-chat.
If I just want to get my thought out, I write an article. Not that anyone reads my articles, but it bothers me less.
Fair enough. The only advice I could give you is that you're probably better off finding those connections is real life than behind a computer
Geez. Reading through this really does sound depressing.
I was legit in tears, today. Totally miserable. This is actually the first thread, in a long while, where multiple people showed up to talk, and it wasn't just them screaming at me to kiss some dude's derrier cuz HE'S IMPORTANT.
This has actually cheered me up. There are still some normal humans on Nostr. They haven't all run away. 😆
Yes, we see. You are the most prolific person on nostr. This is why I have joked about you being the Martha Stewart of nostr. Your forest branding is so good. The citadel team is really building on a sound basis. There is also so much potential in what you could craft beyond casual conversations.
I feel like engagement got blown with the great spam attacks of 2024 and the rise of wot plus some clients being outbox and others not.
I used to have more banger posts but I also haven't had many new developments to tinker with lately besides npub pro
tbf, I have done all the suggestions people mentioned here when I first joined. Here are some tough stats, 2 months of me focusing on Tiktok got me from 1.6k to 8k. 2 months in nostr with non-stop engagement in my end got me 0 to 213. I am not saying these two are the same. The point I am making, I came here to engage — out of curiosity, value for value, the people and no community guidelines. However, I cannot deny the fact that it is fairly limited reach. Finding topics that interests me is fairly limited even I seek them out. Yes, I made the effort to create topics of my own, but I noticed unless I talked about politics, freedom of speech or bitcoin or food, my engagement is very low. Now, I am re-evaluating my presence on nostr.
I tried to talk about classical Greek philosophy. Much silence ensued. 😅 🙈
I hate to tell you this, but 213 in 2 months is actually pretty good. My bros have been on here for over a year, some of them, and post every day, and they're stuck around 500.
oh really?! LOL then I must have been doing something 😂
It is very hard to get a reference point on here because all I see are accounts that have been here over a year. But honestly, until I saw your nostr observations, it coincide with what I have experienced as a noob.
just to clarify- when I say account over a year I am talking about the one's with high following and high engagement. Eg devs or bitcoin lovers. So I thought maybe those type of accounts are the one that resonates with some people here.
Bitcoin lovers seem to resonate with nearly everyone on here. Though I do question their belief in the network, at times. Although, it does seem a bit more polarized when it comes to devs.
yeah I noticed that with the devs too.
Most devs seem to have very different and very articulate visions for their clients and Nostr as a whole. They butt heads too often from what I've seen and many aren't very open or, in the worst of cases, completely closed off to user feedback.
I noticed that too because at one point responded to fiatjaf's comment about some users' feedback that he was whining about.
I haven't observed enough of his posts to comment on that, tbh. Do you remember what the comment was or maybe which post it was?
Most devs have left nostr.
I've only been here for about three months so I'll take your word for it. That explains why so many clients have so many bugs and are left in a stage of infancy.
Was very vibrant 12-18 months ago. We used to have an account called "Nostr Report" that used to show case 3-6 (sometimes more) innovations every day.
Now it's quite hard to find even one. I normally trawl through this site here and pop anything interesting on r nostr. But its increasingly difficult to find interesting stuff. Other projects invest in their devX and it pays off. Nostr didnt. Though Nostr still has quite a few payroll devs thanks to the amazing generosity of jack.
Some of that is true I believe, but I think that's often how we grow and build new things even if we don't agree on everything. Trust me there is plenty I don't agree about, but I'm still here and still building. I think it's a bit of a misnomer that we all have to get along for success to occur. Bitcoin protocol is still highly successful despite it being mostly anarchistic, and we have a much larger scope.
>in the worst of cases, completely closed off to user feedback.
That is a universal software development problem unfortunately, very often (outside of nostr) these people can even be heavily funded or even building highly successful tools we use today. If you look at my notes, I regularly harp on inability to accept user feedback and criticism. To be fair some of the largest development firms (Apple, Microsoft etc) they aren't really open to feedback. Some individual products have corralled feedback mechanisms but it's highly confined to their vision. Point is, it's often too difficult to send feedback so most users don't. Not saying it's morally right or wrong, but this issue is prolific and generally accepted, only in open source are developers highly exposed to their customers directly. Most developers (including product staff, making design decisions), are paid ones, working in corporate settings shielded completely from their users, on purpose. It's just a different world and we have to learn how to work in it.
I wasn't suggesting that we all need to get along to progress but more cooperation among devs and users, regardless of differences of opinion, would be nice. You don't have to like someone to realize that a particular piece of feedback or recommendation they gave you holds potential value if implemented. Also, many devs don't seem to possess your approach to inclusion.
That's disappointing to hear. Though, I'm not all too surprised to hear that. As for funding, I think nostr might have taken the wrong approach to that matter. I'll elaborate on that another time, perhaps. We'll see what happens. I just hope we see better cooperation fairly soon.
Wrote a long reply, nostrudel reloaded :(
> I just hope we see better cooperation fairly soon.
I was just going to say, in my opinion we're getting along very well over all. We have our disagreements but the better ideas will win eventually. Speaking as a member of one of the few (if not only) nostr development companies, who believe in this cooperation. But we also aggressively fork and do whatever TF we want to when necessary.
nostr:npub1l5sga6xg72phsz5422ykujprejwud075ggrr3z2hwyrfgr7eylqstegx9z suggested we move our bickering out of public relays if we can help it. Keep it away from the users. Im of the opinion any highly skilled & motivated individual become difficult to manage, in a corporate setting this is just hidden from the users, but forums and twitter are alive with software devs bickering. If you are unfamiliar, just look up about any highy ranked post on hacker news (https://news.ycombinator.com/) you'll notice most developers don't cooperate well XD
Depends on your definition of cooperate I suppose.
I'd like to hear your ideas on funding, my ears are always up when money is involved :) That said I have never received a dime for MY software yet. Our team has been pretty big critics of the current funding systems as well.
It's normal for devs to bicker in dev forums, and that should be visible. But if we want to attract a more diverse clientel, that probably shouldn't be what they're all staring at, when they show up. 😂
At least, give them a means to turn it off.
I'm glad to hear about most of the devs getting along very well for the most part.
That could be a good idea, especially if developers who are more open to user feedback are frequently present in the group. I will definitely look that up. Thanks.
As I understand it, the more major clients are funded by people like Jack and such, right? I've just been wondering how nostrs retention rate would've performed if it was solely crowdfunded. Like the launching of a bunch of different clients at once, observing which ones are used the most for maybe the first month or so, then have a crowdfunding round for those clients and other future projects that get a significant amount attention through feeds. Maybe some form of advertisement on clients that aren't strictly social media-based.
Yeah, that would be users choosing which clients they prefer, but they went a different route. Various nonprofit and investment funds picking particular clients they like, basically, with no effective feedback-loop from users.
I wrote about it, once, under my other (much bigger) nym.
Well, having nonprofits and investment funds funding the project will always lead to dev teams basing their work strictly on investor incentives. That's also just a rehashing of a typical corporate business model. You know... the kind of business that so many nostr users seen to want to escape from. Point is, that's probably not the best way to fund a freedom of everything protocol.
Btw, I'll promise I'll donate to GitCitadel once I have a better grasp of it.
I'll read that later😁.
Even Michael, the head of our project, hasn't passed 1000. It's a brutal grind, for months and months, just to get to a point where you can post something and have someone usually respond.
Hence, the low retention rate. 🤷♀️
wow that is some tough grind. I also noticed that some accounts on here aren't active for 2 months or more. I was browsing nostrudel.ninja and found accts that were not active.
You're not alone with creating new topics. I normally talk about hypnosis, paranormal and spiritual awakening or life lessons. The latter is not too bad. But the rest is very quiet LOL 😂
Maybe not a lot of interests or people on here are too shy to discuss these things! 🤣