I have to post all of my *best* content at a reasonable time or else it goes to the wind. Well, it goes to the wind most of the time, but if I’m looking for some validation and dopamine don’t post your best stuff at 11pm.
If I don’t get any engagement in the first 15 mins the content might as well not been posted.
I shouldn’t have to do this.
A lot depends on timezones, in UK Nostr doesn't wake up till 2pm because the US wakes up
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Yeah luck and timing play a crucial role in visibility and it shouldn't. Quality is what should be crucial. And to top it off, it's often a circlejerk boostfest of the biggest accounts. Everybody including me follow the big ones already, no need to boost them and drown us even more in their presence.
You can safely unfollow anyone on the Primal list of onboarding npubs. You'll see it anyways 😂
My analogy of the chron timeline is it’s like a nuclear chain reaction. If you are a big account you get some neutrons knocked off when you post, and the chain reaction lasts for days as people boost your post, keeping your post near the top of the feed. The plebs might get lucky and get one round of boosts/neutrons to expand reach but quickly fizzles out. Your 3-5 friends 😛who zap/boost all your posts aren’t going to be there all the time. No chain reaction, limited visibility, limited account growth.
Indeed, there's always an aftershock with the big fellas. It's really hard work to grow organically on here, which does have a certain POW aspect to it but still.
One thing I do is, every note I make (which isn't all too often) I boost 5 hours later. There's a bit of extra oomph to visibility like that and it helps for people in different timezones.
Same.
Nostr is brutal for anyone outside of the USA time zones because most users are looking at Primal Recommendation List, as their main follows, and that's almost all Americans.
So, when those few people don't post, the chronological feed freezes. There's no incentive to use Nostr during other times, anymore.
You also have to cater heavily to Americans, to get those people to boost your stuff, so that anyone else can see it.
We always joke around about the tumbleweeds during the EU time zone, but nobody talks about the cause of it.
Do you think a personalized Recommended list would help with this problem? I presume Primal’s Rec list is still a global one.
Yes, it's a global one. At least, on Primal.net.
But, they'd inevitably tweak a personalized list to always recommend their short list.
What Utxo and Will are building is more future-oriented.
How about a personal WoT relay, controlled by the user, that provides the rec list. The client provides the UX. If the client starts tweaking rec lists, you’ll know it.
Yeah, I have a private relay and I administer wss://theforest.nostr1.com
Nice 👍🏻
If you could add any WoT-related features to relay tools on top of its current functionality, what would you ask for?
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Nothing. He's drowning in my feature requests, already. 😅
😂😂 wot #soon anyway 🌱
if you add #realy to your deployment options you can have a depth 2 WoT out of the box and designate a small list of nostr:npubs whose follow lists designate level 1 and then as you can gather the follow lists of those users you can create level 2, which i would call "guests" it's a model i have given the working title "friends and guests" and it's like WoT but without the retardation of fuzzy boundaries
Hard mode nostr is posting your best content when no one is online.
Posting during east coast US morning coffee poop window is basically cheating.
I have to post at 4 am to get good engagement 💀.
Don't hesitate to boost your own stuff from time to time. Nostr moves pretty fast and sometimes your notes can get lost in the void because of this
