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This is an interesting feature that I think nostr apps should incorporate. I view nostr as a tribe building engine.

In legacy social media, users are algorithmically inventivized to follow and prop up influencers, and everyone is in a rage baiting rat race to get more engagement for potential revenue from social media overlords like Elon. The result is slop, predictably.

I think things are arranged differently here on nostr where people naturally gravitate toward a group of like minded people. I mean this happens on legacy SM, but the algorithm isn't geared toward that type of community building. I have a feeling that "influencers" don't really thrive here, and we should be building around that and cultivating an toxic environment that rejects legacy influencer behavior.

Growth on nostr should be about which tribes you're affiliated with, and your reputation with them, rather than how many mindless followers you've got. nostr:note1g4ve6rs3mdqzwq6w2ehzm84m4rqruu4watc3gx775yw3gezvcmfsl4a0yw
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Josua Schmid 1w ago 💬 1

I‘m not sure if tribe is the segregation I want. It should be more about my current mode-of-mind:

Sometimes I brew beer, sometimes I want to discuss about Bitcoin, sometimes about nostr, sometimes about programming, sometimes about politics, sometimes I like to scroll, sometimes I like to know what people in geographic proximity are doing…

But always I want to know what person X is up to, what X thinks about a matter, and explicitly because this person is not in my usual tribe cluster. I like how facebook did it in the early days. It was about people, not content.

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Muslim Bitcoiner 1w ago

I like this framing too! The tribe building aspect shouldn't be a "segregation" exactly, but just something to build around. But yeah, the individual aspect will matter too obviously, but my point is that I don't think the paradigm of individuals amassing followers to achieve influencer status is going to work well on nostr. I might be off in my assessment, but I think people are naturally going to gravitate toward "tribe building" which will make it easier for people to produce and consume content with each other rather than just having an influencer produce content for the maaaes.