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This account is stuck around 1500 followers, despite being around for over a year.

There is no growth. There is no retention. There is no discovery. Follow lists are stale.

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Bill Cypher 5mo ago 💬 6

I've been here since 2023. Primal shows 1500 followers, amethyst shows 800, daily interactions are basically the same dozen people.

Quality matters more than quantity so none of those numbers concern me. I'm happy with my experience here so I stay.

I see people arguing the assumption that companies need more followers, but I also see small businesses and artists who committed to this platform saying a year here got them as many or more sales than a decade on Xitter.

Follower counts are BS when they are all bots and inactive accounts, which they are on both networks. Lazy fiat spreadsheet brain makes people obsessed with a number that means nothing while they ignore a real quality difference that is hard to quantify.

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Bill Cypher 5mo ago 💬 2

nostr:npub12eml5kmtrjmdt0h8shgg32gye5yqsf2jha6a70jrqt82q9d960sspky99g has been arguing that the nature of bitcoin makes it more difficult for institutions than individuals.

I'm starting to think the same logic applies to nostr.

That is good for both. That tells me I'm in the right place. Large organisations are almost never the source of progress in society. Real progress comes fron an individual making the decision that they want a specific future and they are going to build it no matter how irrational and unreasonable their obsession seems to everyone else.

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Bitcoin Mises 5mo ago

Good take 🔥

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🟠 isolabellart 5mo ago

I fully agree.

I’m here because the experience feels real. I don’t care about numbers, but about the connections that emerge.

On Twitter it felt like speaking into the void — here, someone replies. Sometimes even buys.

It’s a quiet but meaningful difference.

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Bill Cypher 5mo ago

I can buy a Toyota with X horsepower and so on down the spec list. I can buy a Lexus with the same major specs.

No words really capture why some people pay extra for the Lexus. Sit in both and drive both, you know commit a little time. After that you will understand. Maybe you still feel the Toyota is better for you, but you do understand why some people buy the Lexus.

Nostr is the Lexus, Xitter is the Toyota. Even ignoring the "other stuff" I'm happy with my Lexus. I'm spoiled now, I'll give up driving before I ever buy another Toyota.

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The Daniel 🖖 5mo ago 💬 1

You have 1744 followers per nostr.band but it doesn’t matter because probably only 10% of them are active to any degree. And it doesn’t make a difference if you’re getting value out of the ones who you interact with.

Did you know in the world of digital advertising, anything over 1% is considered a successful response rate?

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unknown 5mo ago 💬 1

True Follower counts are a legacy centralized social media abstraction That can’t be really counted here on Nostr since is it decentralized. Your client would need access to every single relay to know what accounts are following you and that’s not scalable or feasible.

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Bill Cypher 5mo ago

My posts are usually well under 1% of followers interacting, even by amethyst numbers. But the quality of those interactions are high.

Conversion rate is > response rate. If quality interaction is a conversion in that analogy, I'm smoking their numbers for sure.