Nostr is about replying. Engaging in conversations. Building your social graph.
There is no algo to spoon feed you. Effort is rewarded.
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Sounds good. Hope you are having an excellent Tuesday. It’s all about making friends :) https://v.nostr.build/cM4A8KXgM7tpMk0b.mp4
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Was thinking the same thing. The more you pour out, the more you receive. Completely opposite from most social media experiences. Traditional social media, no one wants to be reply guy. With Nostr, reply guy is where you want to be.
Good to know. On X I'm reply guy.
All about seeking connections. We are humans who care. 🫂
Gotta break the legacy mindset.
Starting out you're kind of incentivized to be a reply guy. That's the only way anyone will even see your posts
TIL I'm a replyguy
it's about vibes
But to get answers, you still have to create a post. It's the chicken and egg story.
Instead of large-following being the desired metric, to build from the bottom up we should target prolific note makers.
“Nostr is dead”
True. So true. I find the experience of engaging with others on their terms to be much more rewarding than influencer expectations
Build the human network the way we are naturally aligned.
making the effort 🫡
So, what is the reward?
Speaking from a pleb who started December 22’ I found many real life friends, many online friends and overall a community of like minded plebs building the tomorrow we envision our children raised in.
Everyone has their own rewards though as we navigate the protocol.
I discovered this last year because i found an app in fdroid called locus. I guess then there is potential. I think there could be more in that reward
can't lie, I thought like this, but am sticking through with it
Keep rocking! Find your flow with like minded people.
Vibes mate ^^
Reply guy or die
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One has much to learn in order to figure out how to get the best experience out of Nostr
The fun part: time is on your side
Now that you can’t be cancelled, the conversations you do strike up, or the follows you do choose, have better longevity
So the chances of valuable exchange is far higher over the life time value
(Wow, it’s fun how replying intuitively helps you reach important conclusions!)
Right, and interoperability creates a low time preference mentality. You can build from client to client where as before your time was capsulated within a walled platform.
I tried this earlier this year with longer form writing on nostr:npub1yzvxlwp7wawed5vgefwfmugvumtp8c8t0etk3g8sky4n0ndvyxesnxrf8q
Good reminder to get back to trying out different things
The “Other Stuff” keeps getting better. Last week I did Nostr without Notes using only other stuff. I’ll be doing this more often with the amount of development going on.
Can you give an example of what that actually means?
Keen to learn
I did a week without twitter replacement clients.
Used Fountain, Wavlake, Hable, Ox, Zap.Cooking, Nostr.Build, Tunestr and etc.
Used Nostr through the other stuff.
Nice. So as a content creator I can look at
Fountain (not iTunes)
Wavlake (not spotify)
Habla (not substack)
Etc
I think one of the reasons I got burnt out on previous platforms is the sense of how futile one’s audience actually is, you don’t own it, & it can be removed at the drop of a hat
Plenty to work on!
And plenty more is coming. It’s a veritable torrent around here. I can’t keep up. Not even close.
In a way, it’s like we forked the internet from 1994 and are rebuilding all that came after that again. This time without “walled garden building materials”.
Keep up boomer!
I’ll be honest… as much as you are on top of the news and updates via Bitcoin And… There’s no way in hell anyone can keep up with the projects and news of the Nostr ecosystem. And we just know the English projects. Who knows what’s going on in Japan, Thailand, etc. 😂🤙🏻
I like this concept of rewinding to the 90s & starting again
It frames the amount of potential value creation ahead
But we’re obviously well aware of the problems ahead if not built right
NostrApps.com is a solid list to play around with.
Keep in mind this projects are still being built for the most part. Nice to jump around from time to time and see development.
Here’s a little graphic I made which highlights the vast array within the ecosystem. There are a lot more now since I made that and the list continues to grow. 🤙🏻
YMMV
I hope more of my favorite hobbies become prevalent on Nostr. Sometimes difficult to find people to follow.
I’ve been here for a short time, but my impression is that is much easier to get engagement on nostr than trad social media. It might be because I share interests with the majority here, I don’t know. All I know is that this looks very much alive
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#Nostr is 🔥🫡
I don't join any social media for money or engagement. My use of both Nostr and X are the same, e.g. post, follow, comment, repost, dm... Fuck money, fuck fame. It is about being genuine, seeking truth, and enjoying each other's company as humans.
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this is probably the best part of #nostr !! No alogs to give that dopamine hit 🎯
I like the calmness around here and the fact that I have more time to take in the information without the overload.
lol good. Reciprocity is the word!
I call the Notes to Reply ratio the Reciprocation Ratio.
Ideally having more replies than notes is a successful strategy in community building.
The algo is one hell of a drug. I’m still guilty of this.
Exchanging Pure Human Empathy is rewarded.
Before Money there was Barter, obviously that was mainly before Money but it was also many thousands of years before people had numerousy.
Imagine trying to exchange things without Money and more importantly without any concept of numbers.
The real exchange is very hard to imagine as part of a Human Construct. If you try and forget maths and Money too, which is very hard to do, you will realise that the exchange is the pure human empathy of all parties.
Money has never been able to perfectly rate that exchange. Bitcoin gets very close to perfectly rating that exchange.
Nostr is trying to exchange the same Pure Human Empathy, but without the security and protection of the Bitcoin protocol.
This is not a criticism, it's an observation of the process of evolution, well that's my intention and what's in my mind as I type this.
The power to say and exchange what you want, is only a power in the long term if you do good.
The exchange of pure human empathy by, close to, immutable truth, is a power for good. I doubt whether you can abuse IT, but the power is in you, why would you try.
Peace ❤
NOSTR seperates Signal from Noise. I love it.
Lmaoooo. Never seen this meme template before. Love it.
I haven't reposted yet lol
I do want people to follow me, but just because I’m hilarious. Would hate for anyone to miss out.
Facts
I am trying my best 😁
Nothing beats engaging with a like minded community!
So accurate
To be honest, that graphic is what X is like now, even with algorithms. Engagement and energy is just way down from the old days. And all the fake accounts don't help any. Even a censored place like Bluesky has more energy these days, go see for yourself.
But you're right that if you want engagement on Nostr you'll have to try harder than I have so far. But that's ok. Right now it works the way it should -- I get to see the content I want to see, chronologically displayed, not what the algorithm deigns to show me.
Completely uncensored chronological feed = underrated
Quality of content/discussion is far more important than quantity of followers. This is not X and shouldn't try to be.
Yep. We have been groomed to love the algorithms! YT, IG, and most others the same. No cognitive effort needed. No critical thinking required. Just slide into the bubble of your own making. Yikes!
Time to shake up the internet! 🚀
Thanks for this. I need the reminders to not just passively scroll
The human network is alive and well on Nostr. 💪
Yeah except no one here talks about anything interesting no matter how much you try.
Only retards like me stay with you fags because we hate ourselves.
The memes are strong here... and I'm all for it.
100%
That's why it feels better
Nice repost of same content we have seen many time 😂
If you really want to contribute then create real world value first and then make it accesible through nostr.
Each to their own.
Ignoring nostr now is like ignoring Bitcoin between 2009-2012 and one day people will say "you got lucky for getting zapped on nostr early"
Algo stuff what ruins them all. It drives you by your nose and will sell you all the stuff in the process. Nostr is here to change it.
Twitter is dead. Engage eachother on Nostr
So true. Only been on #nostr a couple weeks and conversations are actually engaging, intelligent, educational, etc. unlike the battlefield of X.
Twitter sucks. It feel like I have been shadow banned on twitter for life.
On Nostr, being a reply guy is how you fine tune and tweak your own algorithm 😂
Reply guy here… 
Exactly, just like how it was on Twitter in the beginning, it was people building a social network. At least it's cool to be part of this early stage 😅
The lesson here: Don't follow big accounts!
The ones that Primal suggests you should follow at initial set up. They're arrogant and mostly post crap. Take time to find your niche.
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La magia de #nostr, puro PoW, o se trabaja o nada 🫡
Got it. Thanks!
Nice. I want to engage more, although sometimes I feel I am only engaging to take something and not to add something due to my current limited knowledge on the topics that are most discussed and attract me the most.
Totally ok in my opinion.
You have to take more at first when engaging in new topics.
On the other hand, you might bring value even if you only ask questions.
Maybe you ask a question never ask before, shining a completely new light on a topic?
This look me a while to figure out, but legit makes sense to me and have found Nostr more interesting.
Damn straight! Well said, quiet.
Best explanation I’ve seen.
Exactly. 100%. 👊
I don’t miss the algo at all.
I’ve tuned my feed to just how I like it.
Definitely learning this the more I use Nostr. Engaging in conversation is more rewarding than shouting into the void and seeing if something sticks ( like on the bird app).
Hold off. I haven’t been on x for a few months now. Totally fine. Nostr all the way
Buenas tardes!
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Oldie But Goodie!
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So much more engagement here if you engage
Well fuck, ok valuable info