Show this to the naysayers.

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Elon made a giant mistake.

And content is getting really good. There’s a group of MDs discussing adverse events from the vaccine, they wouldn’t be able to anywhere else.

The damus.io and the damus relay had 1.41 million unique visitors in the past 30 days

The damus.io and the damus relay had 1.41 million unique visitors in the past 30 days

When you brush your teeth, shower, do all the other prep that you do each day, that routine is an algo. Just because something is an algo doesn't automatically mean it is bad or evil. Centralized algos that allow other actors to control how you see the world, are evil. Personally controlled algos that let you properly interact with the world, whether those algos be code you run for yourself, or algos run by your brain, are necessary, and can be good.

If you think all computer algorithms are bad, try to operate while only being on public relays, and only ever looking at global. If the data feed isn't controlled, you will be overwhelmed. If it isn't controlled by you, you will also be manipulated.

I'm realizing now I might have assumed where you were going with this, and if so, my bad. Points still stand.

Anyone else periodically have to refollow people you didn’t unfollow? I have blocked accounts, but never unfollowed.

Anyone else periodically have to refollow people you didn’t unfollow? I have blocked accounts, but never unfollowed.

You mean like this 👇

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Yeah sure, but simple filtering and ordering is not algorithmic in my view. Its just filtering. And it exist some filters already nostrgram.

Pay to follow

gossip and morespeech are the graphical desktop clients I'm aware of.

As for follower count, it is expensive and unreliable to compute. You need to ask for every ContactList that includes you, from as many relays as you can, and then unique the authors returned. If you have 1000 followers, that's up to 1000 ContactLists returned PER-RELAY, and ContactLists can be very large events.

Gossip does not count this. Narcissists can use a command line tool from time to time to do this count. I have one that is unpublished, maybe I will publish it.

If you want to see my feed you can login with my pubkey.

I wouldnt recommend to follow everyone of a users follows. Your follows should be fine tuned by your own to get the best signal for you. This is also why I avoid global like the plague. For me its all about building a follow list of my own and discovery within the wider network.

The purpose of my curated follow lists are so that people who connect to me can scan it, follow people they didn't know had a nostr account, lift up visibility of people and bringing them together, organically. A social thing.

China has shown the highest interest in Nostr in the last 90 days.

via Google Trends

China has shown the highest interest in Nostr in the last 90 days.

via Google Trends

Nope

Iris has a "follow all" feature