Nostr Web Client

Here's how I hit 1 million followers.

Key takeaways:

- over half the Nostr listed relays are using some sort of spam mitigation technique(s)

- the attack was still achieveable

- socal media is easily manipulated

- follower counts and engagement are worthless

- content is the real treasure

I dig the experiment… there’s plenty in there that’ll help improve some apps and relays

It’s worth noting that you now have 1+ million followers who look like NPC’s following 1 person 0 followers 0 posts 0 interactions

You can start faking lots of these, like getting the NPC’s to follow each other and make generic posts

I used scripts like this in the 00’s (turn of the century😳) to beat Googles Page Rank algorithm… it worked back then… it wouldn’t work now

Quality over quantity… it’s too easy to spot low quality accounts… this too can be automated

You’re the first to highlight an old problem… thankfully there’s established solutions