What’s playing on this in your mind right now? 📻

"Choose your own algorithm" will NEVER work on Nostr the way it works on Bluesky.

Smart platform-provided algorithmic feeds like those from X, TikTok or Instagram will NEVER work on Nostr.

Anything that requires filtering from a "global feed" of all notes and delivering that to specific users will never work on Nostr because there isn't and there cannot ever be a global feed on Nostr.

If that is what you think Nostr needs to be good and popular then you'll first have to destroy Nostr by turning it into something else, and then you can implement it.

The alternative is to create something new, a new way of doing discovery, something that actually works nicely within the Nostr constraints, something that actually only works on Nostr because only Nostr has these distributed independent servers with specific owners, specific rules, different users, personalities and preferences.

As for me, I now like the stock.

Can someone make a relay customizer where you can spin up a relay of your choosing that does very specific functions or operates only at certain times or only listens for specific events etc… I know there are a few projects attempting this but I don’t think they are as customizable as they could be

"Works" is such a broad term. Many devs focus on new features and don't fix minor bugs. It's...a bit annoying having so many apps that are left at about 85% complete with only a few hurdles that could bring them from "it works" to "it works great". I try to focus on and look at the larger picture though.

No it doesn't "maths up." LOL. Wtf

he always tries to out-dress me and he’s starting to win now

New people don’t get much engagement because established users don’t follow new people so they leave. They feel like they are talking into the void (because they do). Even commenting on notes doesn’t get you that many followers.

This is why it’s so critical for Nostr to grow or it may very well die. Without new people, the number of users will shrink over time. You need relatively new folks to engage with other relatively new folks because they’re more likely to follow each other and stick around.

code is cool but its still mind blowing to me you can just create a new conscious being!?

How to increase your chances of being followed on nostr:

Tldr; don’t look like a bot

- Have a filled out profile (profile image, bio that’s not fake)

- Post an intro note

- Be active, engage with other notes

- Be geniuine, no one likes fakes

- Post notes and not just boost stuff

- Have something thoughtful to say, or funny, or anything that’s not insulting.

- Stick around, takes time to get noticed

- Share things about yourself

How to decrease your odds of being followed: Exact opposite of what i just said.

i love nostr and i remain incredibly bullish on nostr, however these are the apps that i use daily that cause me frustrations. when i said this morning that i go from bullish to frustrated and back, these are the reasons:

nostrudel - i have to refresh or reload the app often to get profile names and photos to display. sometimes new notes don't load and i have to refresh or reload to display them.

chachi - chats just don't load most of the time. i have to nuke local storage and reload and refresh constantly to get new chat messages to display. this is tedious.

olas - i haven't used olas since the last update. i can't upload images. the images upload blank or never finish publishing. even the feed is inconsistent showing me mostly my images instead of images from people i follow.

pokey - mute thread is not consistent. sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

citrine - no new events get published. i've been at 207,513 events for months. i think this happened whenever i tried to import all of my events from all of my relays. whenever i open citrine there's a notification that it's exporting events, but that never finishes. i think i need to cut my losses and my local data and nuke and start from scratch, but then ill lose all of my local data :(

wavlake - a popup window for amber is displayed every single song that i listen, because it's trying to set a status for the song im listening to. this continues even if you attempt to remember or save the setting.

primal - my NWC somehow stops working. i can generate a new string and apply it and have zaps work for a few days, but eventually it will stop working and ill have to disconnect and regenerate new NWC strings.

fountain - i just don't boost as often as i'd like, because having a separate wallet balance makes boosting harder. NWC is coming to fountain though. that will resolve this.

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honestly the most stable and consistent apps that i use daily are #0xchat, #Amethyst and #Notedeck (jumble.social is great too, i just don't use it that often.)

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looking at the larger picture, these are not showstopping issues, but mere annoyances along a bumpy path forward. and that's where we are moving. forward.

keep building.

What does trail mean in this context?