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Have you managed to bring your Instagram, Facebook, X, etc. followers to Primal ?

And if so, how did you encourage or convince them to follow you there ?

I no longer have access to Facebook, blocked for no real reason, which prompted me to look for a different way to communicate and share.

On Instagram, I posted stories with links to #Nostr, #Primal, and my profile, but I received very little response.

In short, if you've managed to migrate your community, I'd love to hear your strategy and tips. Thank you.

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librekitty 4mo ago 💬 1

i wish 😅

i was never on the proprietary social medias, so i had to start from 0

maybe DM the ones who were most important?

Vincent Vasco 4mo ago

The sad thing about having a blocked Facebook account is that it no longer lets me access any contacts. It also blocks Messenger, so I can't even access old messages or content I haven't downloaded.

But I've still started sending old-school messages with my phone to some contacts. I'll continue 😉!

Have a nice day 😁☀️

Kontext 4mo ago 💬 1

I've tried, but with very little success. The reasons being (I think):

1) I don't really have a "community" or an audience as such to begin with

2) Most haven't been banned/censored so they don't see the value in the uncensorable aspect of the protocol

3) Most don't understand or have interest in Bitcoin so they also don't see value in zaps

4) The network effect is strong (in favor of X/IG/FB, etc.)

5) Centralized social media still has a much better UX than any of the nostr clients

6) The "no algorithms" part of nostr clients means that discoverability is bad, as is discovering (you're not constantly being catered content according to your interests - you have to find and curate your own feed)

Vincent Vasco 4mo ago

It's sad, but it's true that all the points seem valid.

I'm going to try a little longer, taking advantage of the Meta bans and the evolution of YouTube's regulations.

Sooner or later, these millions of users will have to discover Nostr and the client that best suits them.

I had to do it under some duress, but in the end, I'm satisfied.

So, since I'm nothing special, it should be suitable for anyone, as long as they give it a try.

Peril of Spinel 4mo ago 💬 1

Most other people don't seem to be able to get friend groups to shift, if the original venue is still functioning. Cue "I don't like it but I guess things happen that way."

I haven't tried to bring anybody. Long time ago I developed the defensive habit of altogether abandoning my old handle when I sought out a new activity. This is because I first got online in the Wild West Internet days, and it didn't take me long to realize that a) good people I never would have met, and bad people who never could have noticed me, were now both in range, and b) there was no practical defense against an obsessive evilminded lunatic from out-of-district; pre-Internet law enforcement wasn't set up to cope. Pseudonyms that only last for a time could make me hard to follow around. Just in case.

(Now we have got an establishment that has decided that what's important is not protecting the serfs but suppressing them. Worst of both worlds, in certain ways.)

Maybe nostr'll serve. I've considered dropping offline altogether except for practical stuff, too. That seems a little drastic. But it's now on the table.

Vincent Vasco 4mo ago

I'd never seen it like that, but it makes sense.

It's true that I don't feel personally threatened, either online or in my everyday life, so I'd never thought about this security aspect.

It would be a shame to end up having to disconnect completely, but if it's necessary to live in peace...

Peril of Spinel 4mo ago

It's not necessary for me to disconnect. It's just that I'm doing a very long, slow wrap-up on my most recent online project and presence. Maybe there'll be another. I'm poking around to see, because this isn't the justly lamented '90s Internet anymore and it's now hard to locate online places to settle that aren't hostage to a corrupted oligarchic establishment.

Not a Bitcoiner. I will never be a Bitcoiner, or at least I will never admit to it, because, with my philosophy, naturally I will never willingly write anything that must ultimately attach my mundane name to an uneditable public ledger. This makes nostr an awkward fit in some ways. But it's not obviously unworkable.

What I most regret, over the decades, is some of the unintended disconnections from people I liked. When the common activity ended, we exchanged contact info and went our separate ways for a while ... and, eventually, even with people who don't intentionally fade from public view as I do, the contact info no longer works. I should have acted more quickly to keep those contacts live. But I didn't foresee the ephemerality of life online, back then.