Nostr Web Client

Yes, new users are leaving. It's a very difficult time for new sign ups right now. Most are not going to push through the pain of getting their first follow (hard) and following back (buggy). Meanwhile bluesky add 1 million new users a month with good on boarding and infratructure.

Martin 1y ago

I don't think getting followers is an issue AT ALL.

If the protocol made it impossible to see how many followers I have, I'd still prefer Nostr over Twitter or any other ego-centric bullshit network.

I get more engagement here with 60 followers than I got with 3000 followers on Twitter. Daily. Without a shred of a doubt.

People who worry about getting followers are dumb. Not the kind of people we need on Nostr to begin with.

Finding content and people to follow on Nostr is dead simple. Just search for a hashtag and read that hashtag's timeline for a while and you'll find people to follow.

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Melvin Carvalho 1y ago

It is actually I have started fresh many many times. Less than 5% of accounts will get a follower. Maybe less than 1%. Dont believe me? Honestly, try it. The introductions tag can help a bit, but most non techie newbies dont know about the introductions tab.

Yoda Sun 1y ago

Interacting with people can help too. But if you think that followers are the problem just build a team that follows all noobs and occasionally asks for feedback. Because there might be entirely different things to consider.

For example, I noticed that it’s a strain on my data plan. An hour on nostr equals a week on X.

Melvin Carvalho 1y ago

Getting your first follower on Nostr can be tough—give it a try and you'll see. As for data, Nostr lacks a scaling architecture, so clients use a lot right now. There's no clear path to scaling since it needs a uniform interface. That said, tools like Ditto should help reduce bandwidth.

Vitor Pamplona 1y ago

You shouldn't need a follower to kick wot off. A simple like ir reply already does it.

Melvin Carvalho 1y ago

Good to know, though that's still quite challenging. Give it a try—most replies come from a single account, and developers are having a tough time managing it.

Vitor Pamplona 1y ago

I meant ideally.. Nostr WOT implementations are still really dumb and just look at the follow list :(

Girino Vey! 1y ago

maybe some kind of captcha? Try to post to a relay, it sends you a captcha, solve it and send back in time, you get whitelisted. Is any of the current authorization methods flexible enough to support this? I could try to implement it in the WoT relay.

Girino Vey! 1y ago

I just read NIP-42, i think we can use it for some kind of captcha.

Yoda Sun 1y ago

Sure. I joined about 6 weeks ago, and the first follower took 2 weeks, if I remember correctly. But at least it was a human.

My first followers on X were cute Asian girlfriend bots with slightly misformed extremities in their self generated „photos“ 😂

LightningRoulette 1y ago

I will be your Asian girlfriend

welcome to Nostr

Yoda Sun 1y ago

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Martin 1y ago

My account here is about 1-2 months old. I have enough followers to get daily interaction.

But my point is, I don't need any followers at all. I am here to find interesting news and I get those by following others.

I am free to comment on posts that others have written and if what I write are good comments, I will get replies and engagement and sometimes people follow back.

It's a simple and organic process that would work for anyone.

If anything, we would need a directory that analyses what topics users post about and then if I am into web development, the directory can tell me the 10 most active web development npubs so I can then easily follow them all and get my timeline bootstrapped with relevant content.