Best thing you can do as a new person here is to engage in comments on other notes. If all you do is post - no matter the quality of your notes, they are not likely going to be discovered. You have to get on people’s radar first for them to be curious about who you are.
Real pfp automatically gets more attention because most of us are nyms. Ai human pfp will likely get ignored (scammer spidey senses)
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hm some of the large follows were synthetic (I don't know details how, but i heard it a while back that its possible to game the follow count)
not talking about yours but some other rather suspicious ones that rarely post with 10,000+ follows.
Probably some of that around as well
There are loads of fake accounts that work in concert on begging scams. I see it all the time and it makes me angry, as it really spoils everything for those of us who work hard on real content. I think many of those accounts with thousands of followers are being followed by accounts for begging/scamming, and nothing else. I suppose it ain't hard nowadays to create bot-accounts that constantly share popular memes, constantly 'engage' with likes and zaps (to fellow begging accounts mostly), and constantly share begging scams.
Had no idea it was that bad. Thanks for the heads up. I agree; direct funding best way, geyser was an experiment to try something where i didn’t have to code all the features myself and potentially increase visibility, but its clear that nostr itself is the best place. 😂😆
I disagree though, random post on Nostr by newcomers have actually a much better reach than centralised social media.
How do I get followers is the wrong question.
The right question is how do I get engagement. And the answer is simple, by engaging with other people.
I wish clients had a metric for how much someone interacts with other npubs, rather than follower count.
Yep
Is engagement and followers the goal though?
Let's be honest, I'd say most who ask about followers are wanting to be "influencers".
That's the fake and artificial path of the fiat socials.
Instead, I'd say the best path on Nostr is just to get to know real people.
Like you said, can be tough with all the nyms and such, but there's more opportunity to actually get to know each other here than elsewhere.
That's more fulfilling, in my opinion, than a follower count.
pfp?
