Bots and auto-follows, #Nostr has a retention problem. There's only around 15k active daily users.
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Got you. I was going through my follows yday and realised I have a lot of fake npubs pretending to be 'influencers'.
This made me curious. Right off the rip, I see these sorts
It's absolutely not ok, every thing I post is immediately picked up by these yoga spam bots.
In fairness, I don't trust it on any platform these days. Spam is out of control on most of them and paid subs has been a thing for years. I favor removing it from MY view. I get nothing from it and will never trust it anyway.
I'm also skeptical of claims regarding active users, but only because I don't fully understand the calculation one way or the other. I think it's possible to 'use' Nostr without necessarily being visibly active, unlike with centralized services where everything is easily traceable and centralized.
Do you have any data to show 15k active daily users? I'm intrigued
