They actually have ads at bus stops lol
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Oh wow.
As a minor troll, I take issue with the depiction of and discrimination against my people.
Don't worry I'm working on a campaign
Its wild how its using such a current stereotype too to depict the troll - "The Trump Supporter" - Bluesky already leaning left as a company.
Left or right leaning, your social media platform shouldn't have an opinion.
Even bluesky's ads look like they're telling you off lol.
This reveals so much about the 'blocksky' mentality, their killer feature. The Corporate Memphis art style lolol, the sever scolding vibes. You feel like you're in a park looking at a sign out up by the local council.
There is definitely an audience for this tho.
heres another one lol 
Ok. These cannot be real lolol. I want to believe this is real!
They're fake right??
I'd say so. gimme a pic without a window reflection designed to make it look authentic. the poster is also slightly blurrier than the surroundings. seems fake and I don't think they'd risk profiling pple so crudely
is that real?? where did you see that?!
Bus stops are a fitting place for finding people who would rather spend time complaining about how everyone else ruins things for them than actually taking some action and improving their status in life.
Also, they really used an average guy in a hat with an American flag on it to point to what they don't have. Go figure.
Not an official ad campaign, apparently but a guerilla ad campaign by users... so it seems. Looked a bit too clunky. Especially the 'no incels' one lol (see thread).
It is sort of good and eyecatching, highly shareable and is aimed at the right demographic (a whole platform of Reddit moderators?).
This is the best way to prevent trolling, 100% success rate, they clearly know how the Internet works.
(I'm my true self over there and I troll over here.)
wow. who’s paying for these?
I don’t think they can legally use a photo of you without your permission, nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m
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do you know if the bluesky ones are official?
ok the #Bluesky ads seem to be by this artist: https://bsky.app/profile/winstontseng.com
here's Why (from the Bluesky team) saying it's not them/official https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lcme4xsjt22u
Yeah I would be very surprised if Bluesky went for this style of ad. I don't think they would mind this sort of ad being done by someone in a guerilla marketing campaign sort of way. I just can't imagine them officially using this sort of sensationalist style, it sort of goes against the image the want to project 'the nice protocol', or something.
Agreed
I believe they are an unofficial / guerilla marketing type ad campaign. According to Reddit, so who knows lol
It doesn't actually cost all that much to make some posters and buy the keys to do this sort of thing.
(Not that I'm saying anyone should do this).
(I'm not sure if people hack digital public ad space ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ too.)
Not sure if the keys have changed by now. It used to be more a thing... 'subvertising', guerilla marketing and all that. Never really gone away, but perhaps having some sort of revival? Seeing a bit more of it.
lamenting the fact that "hacking" now refers to mundane non-computer things like opening a pickle jar with a piece of tape etc
It fills me with determination to see you trying to kickstart the idea of vandalism-based marketing before considering any fundraisers.
If anyone started a fundraising campaign for nostr ads, I would be very suspicious of how they can be confident the attention will be worth the dollar cost, funneling money into the dollar's economic machine.
I'd be less suspicious of you than others, but you don't take advantage of that to start a fundraiser and ask me for donations - you give me a call to action, against the dollar's economic machine.
On the other hand, what if we actually tried a funded advertising campaign?
I think we could do strategic concentration of force by focusing on the fact that we can and will get banned from centralized platforms eventually.
Imagine your friend is showing you a video on their phone where they get a YouTube ad (because I assume your own device blocks YouTube ads)
The first 5 seconds you see a guy saying "if you're seeing this ad, I must not be going hard enough to make YouTube ban me from giving them money. I'll try harder, but for now, you still have time to be early on nostr. Here, try it, you don't even have to enter an email address or a phone number or download anything to start posting."
Which also brings me to the fact that unlike other big ad campaigns for apps, we are shilling a protocol, not an app, so we don't have to lead users to a download page they'll immediately click away from. We can take them to an engaging post on nostr, in a client they can start replying in right away.
I'm not sure nostr is actually really ready for a mass influx of people(?) unless you have quite a targeted ad campaign (I have suggested eg sponsoring a jay dyer as just and example which I think would work). It's quite a niche sorta place atm, sort of works as something that needs to be sought out. (?)
Someone did in fact buy a billboard space a while ago for a nostr and, I can't imagine anyone joined from it, but it looked nice lol.
Even let's say this guerilla ad ampaign from the bluesky user. It's unlikely that anyone seeing it irl will be convinced to joined. But it works as a very clickbait photo shared online. The actual irl ad is almost irrelevant.
I think that sort of thing could work. And is a lot cheaper lol
If I was gonna sponsor individuals for marketing I'd probably pick individual homeless people. Could deck a guy out with nostr hoodies and hats and nostr-engraved phone with a nostr case and a little bit of Bitcoin and Monero. Maybe a Meshtastic. Ideally we would pick the closest jack lookalike possible. Am I missing anything?
I have kept thinking about this.
Yesterday, I kept typing and backspacing different replies because I couldn't quite explain my point in an irrefutable way.
This morning, I was almost ready to give in to your point because I thought I might have found a good YouTuber to sponsor: @MegaLag, who had just made a video about a big corporate advertising scam involving YouTube sponsorships.
I was planning on making a post mentioning that video by MegaLag, but after some time passed, look at what climbed to the top of the YouTube comments...
A perfect demonstration of what I couldn't have proven by my own words: our target market isn't targetable. This guy is good to sponsor because his channel is appealing to people sponsorships aren't appealing to anyway. It's a catch 22.
We want people who are tired of having their attention bought and sold. We can't show them that by buying their attention from whoever's selling it.
The best advertising would let the target market target themselves by simply offering information. It wouldn't look like it's trying to buy attention, it would look like it's trying to buy a chance to offer you information.
That's what makes my original suggestion so perfect: ads that mention the possibility of being banned from advertising platforms. It's like, "we won't even be polite about doing business with people who buy and sell your attention"
Anyway, I'm open to either approach, honestly. I would chip in to sponsor this guy or run a bus stop ad in a good place or whatever.
What I really disagree with is the idea that nostr isn't ready for a big influx of users. Children are dying in Gaza every day and misguided people who want to help are chattering about it on places like X. If an influx of users breaks nostr, maybe devs will stop building silly side projects as focus on making posts and replies and notifications actually work. Speed is the goal for spread of nostr awareness, not something to avoid.
Will you work with me to get some kind of advertising going?
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they misspelled "far right" 🤣
the aol of social media
This is good , people are more aware of nostr 😁 love it .
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