I think I'm not even adding 1 follower per day, at this point.
Completely ground to a halt. Much less interaction than in a SimpleX chat or Telegram group.
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If you're worried about follower counts on nostr, you've missed the plot.
My guess is its probably going to be like that for a bit. There's like 15,000 active users. If you aren't into Bitcoin, or you aren't excited about the tech behind Nostr, why come here. Bluesky offers you a place to go if you don't like Twitter under Musk, and if things were bad for you under the old Twitter regime, Musk's twitter is a much better place for you now.
At this point I just want people to cross-post in anticipation of the day that things on Twitter turn again.
bluesky recently made some thing where you can hide your stuff from others and that brought a flock of like 1M users apparently
we could have that in nostr too, if relay operators wanted
i think that this idea that relays are dumb needs to end
relays need to be quite a lot smarter, then they can do things like not send events to users who are muted by the author of the event, that would bring in a lot of people i think, if bluesky's experience matters
and bandwidth and sanity - relays should not send you events at all from users that you have muted... i'm about to add this feature to my relay
There's some basic things that Nostr needs that would help it be competitive with the others (excluding content, thats another discussion) - edit and delete. Universally edit and delete need to be supported. I know it will never be 100β with the way relays work, but every client should make a good faith stab at it. Amethyst does it, the others should too.
Do I need KYC (mobile app required, selfie upload, government ID) on bluesky? It seems like all big-tech things are requiring KYC now.
I can't remember what I gave it when I got the invite code. I think maybe an email, if that. That might have changed for new users, I dunno. I'm definitely not praising Bluesky. It just has the momentum now and I want Nostr to have it
Centralization does have some "benefits" I suppose.
You are all missing the point, that if I am only adding 1 follower or fewer, per day, what is the experience like for most newbies?
The feedback you are getting from newbies is only from the 1%, or so, who stick around and are having a great time because gigantic npubs boosted their stuff, immediately, and they're adding followers at a record pace.
THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT THEY DID. ALL OF YOUR STUPID TIPS DON'T WORK; I DO THEM ALL, TO ZERO EFFECT.
IT IS EXCLUSIVELY AN ARTEFECT OF BEING RANDOMLY-SELECTED FOR A BOOST, BY SOMEONE WITH THOUSANDS OF FOLLOWERS. THERE IS A HANDFUL OF NPUBS EXCLUSIVELY DEFINING EVERYONE'S FEED.
#SurvivorshipBias is real.
80% of the potential followers are gained in 20% of time passed?
I oughta agree with the angry boss if angry boss states a relay is as smarter as its operator and users are :P
btw this the lookalike of nostr dot relay dot moizen dot xyz 
yeah, i'm back in purgatory over here, relay seems to be doing bugs i thought i had fixed but clearly didn't
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oh well another free reason to not sit at the edge of the bed with a you-know-who stare only :P
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i fixed it though, and it looks like i didn't regress the memory allocation bug problem either, been running just fine for ages now
you didn't read the news https://nostrcheck.me/media/592295cf2b09a7f9555f43adb734cbee8a84ee892ed3f9336e6a09b6413a0db9/12c1c7e3f15ac9270ba967e893e9fd2749c4bccd766aea54e54cf636b2295920.webp
No doubt, like bitcoin obituaries website, there should be one made for nostr too. Slowly it will keep chugging along.
I like sense of freedom it brings. Ux may not be perfect smooth but once u been banned or when mainstream platforms become censored banned, suddenly nostr will have value. It will get better over time. I'm not leaving. Found some rare amazing people here, impossible to find on mainstream social media. β
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Youβre mostly interacting with people you already follow. Same, same = same result.
I spend about 2 hours a day on here in the new w/replies and engage with new people. Find some common ground and give them a reason to follow you.
For example following themβ¦ Youβre following 21 people. Its off putting imo.
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