Oddbean

Question: I am new to the whole Nostr thing, but is there a way to see / check if your posts are being seen by others? I ask this, because since a day or two, I cannot even see my own posts after I made them. I am using the primal client on desktop. This could be a relay thing of course, but I'm using the 'standard' ones that primal.net already connects to, plus a few others. I know I have very little followers, but I have the feeling that I just send things 'Into the Ether'. Which allows me to use an image that might trigger some response, which in turn would show me that things are all set up correctly, and I just have to work on my exposure somehow... Tips and advice are welcome. #beginner #nostr #question #introductions https://m.primal.net/LBiS.jpg

Welcome to nostr. I don’t know of a way to tell if your posts are being seen, but hashtags are the best way to get exposure. From personal experience primal can get tricky once in a while, that’s why I use multiple clients.

Hey @ThatDudeLuke thank you so much for your reaction. I'll send out the question with the hashtag too later today. interesting enough, it shows your reaction as replying to 'UNKNOWN'. (see screenshot) Do you know by any change how you got my message into your feed? Was it the introductions tag, or something else? https://m.primal.net/LBnD.jpg

Not in Primal but if it shows up on your profile feed, it's been broadcast. You may try out Coracle if you want to see the Relays your note has been broadcast on. It is shown on the bottom right hand of posts. Unfortunately, interaction is really light on nostr unless you're a nostr dev or Bitcoin influencer. Every once in awhile one of my posts will get some response, but with people being locked into their follow feed by default in most clients, unless they actively look at a global feed or hashtags, it is definitely into the ether as you suggest.

Thank you for this tip @Svoboda! Turns out that my messages of the last days are indeed only picked up by 1 or 2 relays. I'm pretty sure this has to do with PoW score. I can imagine relays have tightened hard to fight the wave of spam. But if that's the case, new users will have a hard time reaching anyone at all. Sounds like this could seriously block adoption, while the more established accounts don't even know about it, because their PoW is high enough. Ha, while writing all this, I now see in @Coracle that my earlier note has been picked up by 6 relays, where it said 1 relay just a few minutes ago. Interesting times...

Definitely could be something to do with the WoT scores. Here is a note with a list of WoT relays. You may want to add a couple of them into your collection. https://primal.net/e/note1qqqqq95r4mkw23tg05u5unvx52cycm5wlv2dkakxy902dte26huqmy7hx2

Turns out that new notifications also don't show up on primal desktop anymore. At least the pink 'point' that shows that you have new notifications.. So I completely missed your last message. I very much appreciate the help! I will look into the WoT relays and see if I am able to post anything there. My WoT will be very low, since I am new with very few followers, and I added a lot of people to follow from the primal onboarding part. Worst case scenario, I might have to unfollow to get anywhere.

I keep Primal, Coracle, Nostrudel and a couple other clients open on my desktop. I notice I usually get the notifications on Primal last. No idea why, but there are just weird idiosyncrasies between all of the different clients.