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 The sad part about the post is that it’s true. 
 the sad part is that i recognize everyone here by their arm and miss my friends <3 
 Well, you are a part of the nostrati.

Seems @Laeserin really touched a nerve with the call out… 
 If you want to get invited to our secret meetings, you just need to ask. 
 I can’t afford to fly around the world every three months and drink overpriced cocktails. 
 😂 Felt that. 
 WTF!!!
https://media.tenor.com/GSP7w5eqpwkAAAAC/nailedit-theoffice.gif 
 Yeah, it's an unrealistic requirement. But there's enough of us, now, to have local, el-cheapo meetups, and those are slowly rolling out. Very exciting. More like what #einundzwanzig does.

Have two more coming up, this summer. 👍 
 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. 
 What he said. 💯 
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 I guess that would be an attempt to establish a #NostrMiddleClass  
 Don't make boxes, no need to dilute the nonelite into many categories. Just us vs #nostrelite 
 Wait…. Aren’t you elite class by now? Which direction does this elevator go?  
 I'm soooo not elite. I'm just joking around about it.

I'm more of a #NostrHomemaker. I'm always around, very chatty, glad to be of help, know everyone and all their business, unpaid labor. 😂 
 > “I'm just joking around about it”
https://media.tenor.com/rB8hWIin-2IAAAAC/hmm-suspect.gif
 
 😂 
 No, really, this is me IRL, too.

I'm the volunteer lady from the PTA, who sings in the church choir and sells homemade goods at the farmer's market, so that the mayor feels grudgingly obliged to be polite and give me invitations to the City Hall Christmas party because everyone has at least seen me around and leaving me out would be difficult to explain.

It's a whole vibe. 
 One of these days I'll have your energy.  
 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. 
 Me either. That's why I'm not in Oslo 🥹 

Have you thought about attending local meetups and events? I have been driving 3-5 hours to attend meetups. Building your local community is extremely beneficial. 
 That's how we're doing it, too.
Also, I hate flying. 
 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. 
 I guess the nip-05 business isn’t what it used to be aye? 
 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 🤙🏻🫂💜 
 Illuminostr confirmed 👁️ 
 Half of Nostr muted me, I think.

Well, the half that hadn't already done so. 😂 
 it's good to be the queen 
 Sounds like nostr is pretty thin skinned. 
 Whenever I open Nostr, I see The Laeserin, the tireless writer. 
 I'm actually one of the few "real" writers here, but I'm slowly digging up a few more.

When I first got here, the feed was mostly real porn, fake porn, dev chat, and tired memes. I complained loudly, for weeks, and everyone told me to shut up and produce the stuff I'd want to read, if I think I could do a better job of it.

So, I did. 
 Now, you know this, too.

And this is why I got a development team together. Cuz people told me to do it myself, if I think I can do a better job of it.

And, I can't do a better job. But I know people who might be able to... 🤔

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 You certainly enrich this space, and your commitment to Nostr is remarkable. 
 I'm pretty offended you just called #nostrmemes here "tired" tbh 
 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 .