Follow lots of people. Follow hashtags. Use DVMs. 
I AM A NOSTR NOOB, TEACH ME WISE ONES
I want to love Nostr and use it more. My problem is discoverability - it’s very hard to recreate a social graph + algo that beats Twitter. I see less content here and people see my posts less, so I have fewer conversations. How do I bootstrap the nostr graph without so much drudgery?
Help nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a nostr:npub1zuuajd7u3sx8xu92yav9jwxpr839cs0kc3q6t56vd5u9q033xmhsk6c2uc and anyone else I know in this place
Discussion
What’s a DVM?
Data vending machine.
How does a DVM work?
Here's one you can play with:
You send it sats and it can do stuff for you via DMs like generate AI images. Others like the ones in the note discovery tab on Amethyst that nostr:nprofile1qqsxu35yyt0mwjjh8pcz4zprhxegz69t4wr9t74vk6zne58wzh0waycppemhxue69uhhjctzw5hx6ef0qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjt3s0p3ksct59e3k7mf0qyt8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytndd9kx7afwd3hkctctqc4jq posted are free.
Btw nostr:nprofile1qqsvv0zmfcsmnv0vdde66pzf565938mtmp2ze27euh0x4er5k287spspz9mhxue69uhkgandwvhxvdm69e5k7qgkwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8qunfd4skctnwv46qz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmcfcv8de technically is not a DVM but a bot that communicates with DVMs. It's an interface you can use from any client, even if they don't natively integrate NIP90 (DVMs). There's some web based clients for DVMs too and some of the social clients integrate some DVM kinds like Amethyst or Nostrudel
There's different kinds of DVMs. The ones we see in Gigis screenshot are content discovery DVMs. They aggregate notes and apply a set of rules or filters on the notes and build a feed based on these rules. There's topic related ones, follow related ones, most zapped, most engagement in various timespans on various relays and for different kinds. This is a growing open marketplace and every client that implements nip90 can benefit from it. There might be free or paid or subscription based ones, but currently most are free to use.
Boom. Thanks.
What does DVM stand for?
Data Vending Machines. These are micro services living on Nostr doing various tasks. Content discovery is one of them. But literally anything. Llms, GenAI, you can even write on the Bitcoin timechain or scan files for viruses.