Local in-person meetups are ONE part of the solution to CENTRALIZED over-influence from Nostr elites. 

ANOTHER part is for us plebes to PREFER boosting and posting to each other’s threads rather than jumping onto the “popular” Nostr elite threads. 

 A third part is just to ignore Primal, nostr band or wherever people get the notion of someone being elite and just start to curate your own followers list with people who talk about stuff you find interesting 

 Well, you can easily see the elites in most clients because they are hardly in the replies, but their OPs repost like 20 times in your feed. 😂

Even if they just post an emoji and can't even be bothered to write a single word, you'll see that emoji immediately begin to cascade. 

 Maybe I'm not following enough fanboys to have this problem, but I'll keep an eye on it to see if I'm just ignoring it or if I'm being so starstruck that some elite person has actually showed up in my modest timeline that I'm not annoyed about it 😂 

 😂 Well, I see it less, now that I use more lists and filters. 

 I'm digitally too illiterate to set up any filters... 😂
I just block and mute 🔨 

 This! 🔥🔥🔥 

 I almost made it to pubkey for Nostr village … but even that was a bit too far. Are you going to any Nostr meetups in the Midwest this summer? 

 None planned and probably not even if one pops up. I'll stick to places that I can drive in the mid Atlantic states. 

 Mixing @ meetups/Port/land, Or./ circular econ! S. to Eugene/ 

 backup 

 Where do I send in my application to become a nostr elite? 

 Membership is closed, sorry. 

 No worries. I don’t think it was ever open to begin with. 

 You just gotta do the elephant walk with @jb55 and @fiatjaf and you're in. 

 They both have like five years worth of mentions to read through. 😂 

 I believe it. My notifications are a constant bombardment and I know that I often miss things. They have it worse than me by far. 🥹 

 Jack and Odell are even worse. 😂 

 I don't mind it. I've flown more in the past 3 years than I have the previous 40 😂 

 I have to fly overseas to visit my relatives in the States. Always the back-n-forth and the nausea. 

 Hmm. I haven't really advertised in a long, long while. Probably the better part of a year? I should do that again soon. I don't like to do it too often and sound like a shill, but I think it's time for a bump. I don't really like overly promoting my own stuff. I like to brag about what cool things others are building. Things far better and more impactful than myself. Thanks for the reminder 🤙🏻🫂💜 

 They're mostly like cotton T-Shirts.
Grab them off the rack, while shopping at Twitter, one size fits all, no customization, can hold up to frequent reposting.

I'm here for the #bespokememes .