This is very true.

I just wanted to make sure it wasn't my imagination. I try to be here every day even if I don't have profound things to say or am feeling argumentative.

Most web2 algos give an impression boost to the new users for a reason. It's a cheap trick, but it works.

Current state of having to scream into the void severely flattens the growth rate exponential.

Completely agree with this

Use more hash-tags

Not only that but my profile shows I have 2 followers but my notifications show way more so I’m not quite sure what’s going on with it.

Not sure how this is solved. Not without a way to weed out new bot npubs vs new legitimate users.

Introductions from established users who know they aren't a bot, because they helped them get set up, seems the most effective, but also the hardest to scale, and leaves those who find Nostr on their own out in the cold.

When I first showed it felt like this but soon I realized engagement was key. So I started commenting on notes and commenting to others notes within. This helped me a lot and am now adventuring outside the bitcoin ecosystem, through hashtags and key words. Not sure this helps but it helped me.

Thanks for the reminder. Gonna try to step up my game again. I haven’t noticed as many #introductions notes lately. It’s fun to greet and meet. 🤙

Very true👏

I guess I'd say that besides a more built-in algo feed, so I was seeing interesting stuff, what you describe was my experience on Twitter from like 2011 - 2019 or so. And, I don't think I broke 100 followers until a couple years ago. Almost a decade of grind before I really felt like I was a part of it (with much engagement).

Jup and i think most of my <20 followers are bots 🤣

Just be generous with likes

Support small accounts 💪🏼🤙🏼🧡💜

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Definitely a cold start problem and mix in various points of friction (like relays being one), and yeah it can make retention tough.

Those would be good opportunities for someone to build on.

isn't this a natural problem with people in general, even offline?

no one who is famous or thinks that they are goes out and talks to a lowly plebeian on the street.

Popularity is a winner take all market. If we really want freedom, this is what it is. Darwinian.

i think i will keep posting here and if i am not posting then i just keep this account. who knows it will come in handy , maybe i can sell some stuff here and get pay by sats.

Totally agree — exactly my experience as someone new to this platform. Completely different from all my previous experiences with other social media.

Maybe a DVM that only boosts posts from new profiles.

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Bang on 100% true 👍

This hits, like a kick to the 🥜💰

Yeah this is really accurate. I’ve purple pulled a couple people and they’ve all left in short time because it feels like there’s nobody out there. 🤷‍♀️

Yep. Follow me for irreverent humor. 🍆

It does seem like those who recruit to nostr just tell people to 'post' rather than show them how to use it, and show them for specifically how it could help them.

I'm hear to communicate with people in STEM, and learn, but finding people in the sea of the "G M", "P u r e V i d a", and variations of the 'Austrian economics' people takes an amount of patience and persistence that could easily be not worth the effort.