It is ok if gaing follower is difficult on nostr. I don't have many people knocking on my physical front door demanding driblets of wisdom, if nostr is truer to life then it is truer full stop.
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Some people are using Nostr to advertise their businesses, publish books, or preach the Gospel, sir.
We aren't all only shitposting or posting pics of our belly-button lint.
I understand that. But it is still ok. If everyone had immediate reach, it would require everyone else spend the majority of their time filtering through content.
You can either filter through slow organic growth or through algorithms. The available attention is fixed. Slow organic growth allows more people to have a small influence rather than a small number of people having a large influence.
I'd rather watch content from a local cabinet maker from whom I could buy physical goods than to have Mr Beast algorithm garbage sucking up the oxygen.
It is all what we want to incentivize.
You have it backward. The feed here is not at all organic. People are mostly being onboarded to a fixed list of npubs and lists, and they aren't seeing much beyond that.
Going back over the thread, you have made me think a bit more. You raise some points I haven't considered. The biggest being ossification of the social graph. That is a problem I haven't considered. Instead of a social web we kind of end up with social cobwebs.
The Cobweb of Trust? More thought required on how to make maintenance of relationships meaningful.
Yeah, in a natural environment, laziness is punished and effort is rewarded. This setup is completely unnatural.
People have built a shrine to themselves and we're all supposed to just come here and bow down in worship, but I kneel only for Christ and my husband.
Also, gaining followers here is not difficult. It is discouragingly difficult, revoltingly sycophantic, or bizarrely easy.