Really late night comment before sleep, had to comment on this. I think you're on to something with this. Combine this with my note about moving away from celeb profiles to more interest/topical based hashtags in the on-boarding process and we might get something workable to help creators and fix nostr retention, imo. Kind of a simple rotational soft algo promoting different communities and creators. People need education as to what's on here in terms of niches
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Thanks nostr:npub1uq6dv4yq94704gk5r22jsqg9gy2wpxkk5dft9q5gugc8tj53nq2qg5q22d See you tomorrow!
Congrats CT, I agree it's great and it's my daily on desktop and one of my favs overall. Just needs a little more polish with the posting features such as uploading attachments, emojis and a few bug fixes with posting.
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I'm by no means an expert. I'm just giving observations based on experience on things I have observed as a 3rd party and things in a past life on how communities are built related to work (marketing/community management related)
For being a creator whether you view yourself with that label is entirely up to you. But from a 3rd person standpoint you must definitely are. Anyone here is. Whether you go pro and become an entrepreneur is something that's in your hands and you control however.
I would actually encourage you to use hashtags so as it can create a community of other people doing your thing and you can find other like-minded #plebs and they can find you. It will also help new users in finding people like you.
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Agreed, we're all lab rats here and it's exciting at the same time!
nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z I have long been pounding the drum of topical hashtags in the on-boarding experience for client devs. That will be at least one piece of the puzzle and easy enough fix to help small creators and user discoverability.
Imo, one of the reason why retention rates on #nostr are so low is the current model of suggesting public figures to follow rather than showcase our vibrant communities related to hobbies/interests. Look at #foodstr for instance, new content posted on the regular. Not throwing shade at any of our celebrity profiles, but if I was a new user coming in and saw really low engagement from the profile owner and comments in response to him I would conclude this place is dead, which isn't true but 1st impressions are everything. Some don't come on here regularly either and are still stuck on Twitter. With the topical hashtag model in theory those who are engaging the most on here would be better rewarded and gives a shot to small creators to hustle and make a name for themselves and interact with people and will help with retention of new users. Gives people an incentive to stay on #nostr permanently.
The follower thing is broken anyway and is a vanity metric. Engagement and lasting user impressions of those we engage with should be what we should be focusing on, imo.
Poor documentation of the lingo on here is another easy fix. No-one knows the whole "str" thing on hashtags when they first join for instance. It would help with new users and also help with the user discoverability problem, imo
Don't want to sound like I'm complaining, but just making a general comment and giving an idea since you seem receptive to ideas in regards to how clients can help small creators.
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Completely understand what your saying and agree. I think once Nostr gets more mature their will be clients that don't have those sorts of soft algos and those that want those features can have them.
With regards to nostr:npub19mduaf5569jx9xz555jcx3v06mvktvtpu0zgk47n4lcpjsz43zzqhj6vzk they could do some good and highlight comments or things from the various communities on here in their reports with the usual stuff they post instead of focusing on tech related things, devs and Bitcoin and events related to those things exclusively. We got some rich communities on here and a lot of posters/creators who make excellent content and comments, they can help with user discovery as well as it might introduce folks to new communities they didn't know about on here that are still small.
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The easy fix is for clients not to use those hashtags and have them topical oriented. Plebchain can stay as it's a way people can reach out for help.
New users really need to know all the hashtags and lingo here as their isn't good documentation on it. Even I'm learning new things! I can't say I have experienced the follow4folow thing with the #grownostr thing as of late, but I can see your point.
For Twitter and legacy social media, I agree with your point with established creators, but as I pointed out anybody new/starting out has the deck stacked against them because of how the algo operates in centralizing things around big accounts to keep users on their platform and ad money flowing. Not saying it's not possible to grow a big account elsewhere, but it's certainly much harder with all the noise and saturation.
That's why people should go out of their way to support #nostr only creators, imo. People should be using nostr and using a bot to post to Twitter instead of the other way around. People proclaim they hate Twitter yet a lot of them spend their time on it.
I agree growing an account is a struggle, but you can't really get an accurate measurement of where you stand in the community based on follower counts. As I said to nostr:npub1jk9h2jsa8hjmtm9qlcca942473gnyhuynz5rmgve0dlu6hpeazxqc3lqz7 public figures have an inflated follower counts because that is peoples 1st point and call in there nostr experience and many become inactive due to the perception of lack of activity on here. Certain public figures don't actively engage enough with people or take the time too.
I have long held the position we shouldn't be on-boarding users like that, but on-boarding them to frequently posted hashtags to show their is life here and vibrant communities, whether it's food, art, photos, ufos, etc.
If you want my opinion Poe the demographic of #Bitcoin ers value quality and it's not so much relinquishing their coins it's just standards are really high as a demo. They are more into luxury things as a demo. ETH may have created the "wen Lambo" meme, but Bitcoiners have no such thing because the crypto market follows Bitcoin and Bitcoin is where all the mega wealth is and concentrated. The whales want to spend their sats, trust me!
Bitcoiners are more than willing to pay and are generous to quality craftsmanship or ideas, it's just so far their isn't any sizeable outlets to spend their stuff. They're are some pretty big whales lurking both on here and elsewhere waiting to splash #sats on good ideas, but it's just the infrastructure isn't their for them yet. We are only starting to develop stores and a circular economy denominated only in Bitcoin.
So it ties into what Vitor is saying in a way, we just need to complete the infrastructure and we need people to take chances and offer goods and services for sats and become entrepreneurs and content creators who take #sats
To me it's like Hotel California, nostr:npub1uq6dv4yq94704gk5r22jsqg9gy2wpxkk5dft9q5gugc8tj53nq2qg5q22d knows what I'm talking about ๐
It's all great in theory, but their is going to be a sizeable amount of people who will want something for nothing as we have been conditioned to expect that and others have different morals.
Again I'm not disagreeing with your idea.
The way I view piracy is it's at least free publicity/marketing and could in theory work into what your describing above as subscription /donation hybrid thing. You just have to accept it as a cost in business calculations if your creating digital content. If people knew their fav creator was one payment away from homelessness and shutting down their content creation for good they would chip in, even people who pirate if what they made was quality. Such as the life of a starving artist/content creator.
Vitor raised a good point and it's good to brainstorm ideas and try to find solutions, but this is a long standing problem that others have tackled without success, but it's great to have these discussions and is why I keep coming back to Nostr as the posting quality is of the charts