i feel like people are more interested in telling me how they feel about having follower counts than explaining why there’s such drastically different reports on them 😂

Wait.. what are Preston’s feelings on sparkling water..?

Thinking from first principles is hard. Not the logic, but the conclusions. If they're against the main narrative, you are going to be called a conspiracy theorist or weirdo or wack job. The social isolation and peer disapproval is the hardest part.

This is where you need to let go of that desire to fit in and be well thought of by the normies. It's hard work, but worth it for the intellectual freedom.

It's a beautiful day for a run.

i may replace it next year with something a little better and higher quality. we've had these for 4 years now. the table is completely destroyed. the sun magnifies through the glass and baked the fake wicker mesh underneath it. it's all completely gone. and two other pieces have had the fake wicker mesh start to get brittle and break. they're usable for now. ultimately the sun destroys these. keep them covered or in the shade!

Counting is hard.

Depending upon the time of day, Amethyst says I have either 500 or 10,000 followers 🙃

Technically speaking someone could be following you but not have any relays in common with you and send you a DM and you'd never get it because you're not using the same relays. This is why the new outbox model is very important. Many clients are moving to this new method. Primal uses a caching service on their backend which also helps here.

A daily “digest” feed to show you notes from people you add to the feed, the latest music, popular videos, latest articles, recipes, whatever you wish to see. All from nostr of course.

I really don't get the people that complain that they don't get followers on Nostr because there is no algorithm.

I never got any followers in any of these platforms with algorithms (even though I used them actively for years), except when by some unexplicable hit of luck some people started using @lntxbot on Telegram and by word-of-mouth it got to Alex Bosworth and he mentioned it on tweet and then my follower count slowly grew from 50 to like 5000 over a 3-year period.

Is there a magic trick that allows you to go from 0 to 100000 by gaming the algorithm these days and then scam your followers a high-ticket course about how to get followers and become a millionaire? Or what are these people talking about? Why do they even want followers in the first place?

Combined with a 20% unrealized gain tax and 70% inflation! 🥳 nostr:note17tkjc5kag0xgcncea48c0cuyq8gac4w03faw9fk2f4fzymgvmhvq8sv0qd

Some influencers, creators, artists copy their tweets over word for word with direct links to their content and expect it to work. But this is a poor way to promote on nostr. They treat it as a backup, an afterthought and expect engagement.

There are no rules on what you share but people will respond very different if you’re active and a genuine person who talks to people, rather than simply using them to get eyeballs on your stuff.

It’s not a nostr rule, it’s the basis of any relationship building.

Pre-ordered ✅

#memes #funny

Bike riding, lots of squats, some deadlifts, some sprints, some pushups, some dumbbells, long walks in the sun, and cold plunges.

That's kind of my vibe now.

Let's keep this hype train alive! 🔥🔥🔥

Yeh. Zaps create in some ways a perverted incentive to say what you think you want people to hear. Not what’s actually valuable.

A lot we’re not understanding here

I didn’t sign up for #Bitcoin stable coin!

I just use nsec.app it's non custodial and works great everywhere except for ios