You’ve created so much content around Nostr and Bitcoin that your followers reflect that. You’ve built a specific audience. One off posts of different content don’t tend to gain traction but when a significant percentage of your posts are about a different topic I believe an audience will grow, if given time.
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I think there’s truth there, as I’m definitely entrenched in the bitcoin and nostr community, but it’s also a bit of a chicken and egg situation. If there’s no measurable interest in a topic after posting a few times about it, then there’s no real incentive to spend time making posts about it to build an audience.
I’m making things purely for the joy it brings me to make them right now.
Fantastic. Any artist/creator should find joy in what they’re creating. But there are many people who also seek to find a source of income through what they are creating, on top of enjoying it, and those are the people who are going to create consistently and with consistent quality. Nobody wants shitty content. Nostr has amazing potential to be that “platform” for artists to monetize directly with their audiences, and because of the nature of Nostr and Bitcoin that support can come from literally anywhere in the world. What I’m saying is that bitcoiners on here by and large have so far been very selective about what they do and don’t support with zaps, and at the end of the day anyone who is doing art/content professionally is seeking to make money from it. No need to pretend otherwise.