I also think there’s a lot of npub tourism (active 1-3 months then leave/ retire that npub) 

 Yeah, it's like I'm dragging a bunch of dead npubs behind me. That must be how some people have 100k+ followers, but only about twice as much interaction as I do.
Mine probably doesn't have as many dead npubs because it's just not as old.

The stats would be so much more interesting, if they only contained npubs that had been active within 3 months. 

 it's such a rich vein of data to analyse for all kinds of reasons... it's gonna be interesting to see as people start to build good analytics 

 Stats at different time intervals would be interesting

I think the 100k+ followers comes partly because they’re celebrities from twitter and partly because of the trending circle jerk 

 Yeah, but I'm like... How have there been 100k people here? 🤷‍♀️😂

Feels like a little clique. 

 Doesn’t every new npub follow a set of npubs (if you use certain clients)? You can get to 100k+ easily in 2 years 

 Took me 6 months to get to 4k. 😂🙈 

 Agreed but we’re not celebrities 🤷🏾‍♂️ 

 It should have read: “you can get to 100k+ easily if you’re a celebrity” 

 Doesn’t change anything in the end though 🤷🏾‍♂️ 

 Well, it means that people aren't staying long enough to find npubs that aren't celebrities. 

 Or that they don’t unfollow the default list. But yes I agree there’s a lot of npub tourism 

 Following
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Followers
    274

That is what my Nostrudel shows. 

 oi! where do you get nostrudel to actually count them up? when i click on profile/followers tab i have to count rows and columns 

 It's on the profile page. Have to unclap the horizontal tab. 

 mine shows zero followers

must be a thing in next

i can shortcut counting them by just selecting them all and pasting into gedit, each follower has a number and so i scroll down and see i have 607 according to my relays 

 Yeah, the next followers is way off. 

 This is what I see on Nostur. At the beginning it stalls around 500 but then it rises to https://i.nostr.build/8G8ea.jpg  

 That's weird, I see us having a bunch of relays in common. Nos.lol, bitcoiner.social, damus.io, etc 

 Interesting. This is what I see on Damus, for your relays. I see 6 https://i.nostr.build/lLqnw.jpg  

 I’m not connected to bitcoiner social 

 I guess the follower count isn’t the only thing that’s inaccurate 

 This is what I see on #amathyst. Hoping someone who understands outbox can explain lol
https://image.nostr.build/b6e9b16ced5b6073c0c9777164239dbdd3690b3c990cde0ad2832e1831d02365.jpg 

 Ah you’re using outbox. I guess that explains why there’s a missmatch between what I see and what you see. The mutiny blastr is the only one you need for us to connect 😂 

 I believe so. the wallet that's built into Primal is what I'm using  

 the pettiness of the reddit/loli/nazi/spook crowd is hilarious

i value your content so i'm going to make sure you have some little extra sats to send at least

been getting a lot of zaps lately, so it's nbd, just the weather i guess 

 There's bugs so it might not be. I've been  testing automated lightning payments since 2022. I'm having a difficult time with highlighter, but these zaps are not me.  

 I think many nostr devs underestimate the importance of balancing the zap economy because they think in abundance. There's this assumption that as nostr grows it will have money dumped into it like Facebook or YouTube except the money will go to the people instead of a corporation.

People need to wake up and realize the deep state printing money to propagandize through Facebook and YouTube in a desperate oil-starved economy probably aren't gonna suddenly do wealth redistribution through nostr adoption.

It's on us nostriches to fight against becoming another lopsided parasocial thing where few get rich and the many follow the few. 

 Yeah, or the software project gets bought by Microsoft or one of the FANGs. Like GitHub did. 

 Also, sent numbers could be lower than expected because people you zapped might be using a lightning address that does not support zaps. In that case they receive the sats, but no zap receipt is broadcast to relays. 

I did a quick check on your zaps received and they seem legit at a quick glance. Top 50 zaps received total comes out to 182k sats and you’ve received over 2k zaps. Top zap came from @ODELL on this note:

nostr:note1dm5tmuzpfv5jjyf2hvtwchs50kqeuj2tc3zwfm2ccd0gkfwmyjvqcmp78e 

 Almost all of the zaps I received are very small. Like 7 sats or 100 sats.

If I received all of those zaps, then where did they go? Poof!

The only thing I can imagine, is that they're somehow counting my big transfers in from my Relai wallet as zaps, or something. 

 transfers in would not have a zap receipt. zap requests are only created from nostr clients and zap receipts should be broadcasted from your LNURL service provider upon successful payment of the zap request. if you've changed your lightning address in the past, it's possible the zaps are going to your old lightning address. this happens if your old lightning address is on relays out there or cached on nostr clients. someone built a tool that can check relays for your outdated profile recently. i forget who made it though. 

 I did change my alby address, when I got a new npub. 🤔 

 But I changed it before adding it to my new profile. 

 I’m only looking at zaps to your current npub 

 Here’s the zap receipt of your 42k sat zap from Odell on 6/11

https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0cyyn9w3gupy9rl585z37gcqc2epvq20xagw8fnvekazxkywlveqprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wdmksetjv5hxxmmdqgs8nuqd8adpnmyqvxyle2crcxlyl7qarrhy7efu3ravg8lqx4c0gvsrdx9tp 

 Yes, that was the biggest zap I've received. 

 Next biggest is this one for 15k on 6/9. There’s also a few 10k sat zaps. 

https://njump.me/nevent1qqstxs94w9lvk6mmnlzwmw34r9j7g9yyp0mykp8ak9z5lr8jylcmnhqprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wdmksetjv5hxxmmdqgs8nuqd8adpnmyqvxyle2crcxlyl7qarrhy7efu3ravg8lqx4c0gvskmy6k9 

 I ran the numbers and the ones since June 5 seem to be correct. Almost all the zap from Odell and a couple other 10k+. That's the oldest screenshot I have.

The reason I'm still broke is that I spent over 521k sats, most from my Relai wallet, not my zap wallet.
Thought I was going nuts.

Still don't know why the sats received are so high, tho. I find it hard to believe that I received that many zaps within 5 months, especially as the large zaps are all recent. 

 Good grief, @mleku . 😂 

 i am animated by the holy spirit, be ye grateful of the works of the Lord 

 also, it was good grief, i had much pleasure in its loss 

 🫂  

You guys are making my day. I have enough to pay for my subscriptions next month.
I guess that's one more month where I don't need a day job. 😂 

 hey, last year i was sharing my sponsorship to help my helper in nigeria keep his internet connection on

he learned lots of internet skills, i'm pretty sure, but eventually he wasn't really focused on the task (related to https://github.com/indra-labs/indranet )

i am blessed by my fortune to have an avid and cereal tech bro organising for me to get paid as i build and learn

i am hoping that i can continue towards this advancement of my brothers and sisters, and i probably will do it again, so, watch out, if you wish no good fortune upon yourself 

 😂 

 you begged in such a humble and sweet way, that i was provoked in these hours of today that i needed to provision you with sats

it's nothing personal, but that you are a great servant of goodness in this place that i am right now and i honor that 

 I'm so glad we're frens now.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fb/3a/bb/fb3abb3ad0f40312794d7abd2e66e962.jpg 

 it's nothing, really

the whole reason for winning a boon is to share it 

 a lot of small zaps add up. on primal it says you've receive 2,660 zaps and i don't think that includes anon zaps. 

 I don't seem to be getting anon zaps, or only very rarely. 

 I found the explanation. I got a gigantic zap-refund for a LN-spend I'd made. So, if you remove those 300k, the sats received make sense, again.

nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzphtxf40yq9jr82xdd8cqtts5szqyx5tcndvaukhsvfmduetr85ceqqsz3raygthavkly3sv3lsy777p9ddcuev76jznqwunpau0x3rlpr9s309y3d 

 then they were generated by people who requested an invoice, but never completed the payment. this can happen for many different reasons. sometimes people change their mind, sometimes there's a bug with their nostr client, sometimes there's an issue with your LNURL service provider, etc. 

 Yes. At least, I've seen it. 🤷‍♀️ 

 I haven’t seen it on an iOS client yet. Maybe a perk of android clients or web clients 

 They're all just showing the band stats. 

 😬 

 I can't seem to zap you, either. Weird. 

 I can see what you send me immediately. That's really strange. I'll have to take a closer look tomorrow