The welcome wagon is mostly a myth and it's now fallen out of favor because LightX was pretending to be TikTok girls and collecting sats.
When I arrived here, nobody noticed me and I had to tag people I knew from X, and reply to threads, to get the ball rolling. I think that's much more typical, and probably harder now because of WoT, since so many people won't see what you write.
People see 4 people arrive and get a warm welcome and don't even notice that another 4k arrived to stubborn silence.
Primal actually was the first client that made it easy to find people, without wading through porn and Nazis on global, through their lists.
I wonder if the welcome wine relay catches new npubs from primal? I've noticed there's generally quite a break between activity from primal & the other clients I use, but I'm not savvy enough to know why.
It's also just a time-zone thing. If you're onboarding from Europe, in the early morning, then good luck with that. 😂
#slowstr definitely takes its toll 😂 I'm usually in bed hours ago
Actually sort of painful hearing about the Welcome Wagon because it's like, I arrived and nobody cared. 😭 Other women showed up, said "Hi!" and had more followers and sats on the first day than I had after months. And they've since posted like three times because that level of attention quickly peters off and then they get bored.
I busted my ass and worked hard for every follower and took a lot of crap doing so, and that's probably why I'm still here.
I built this.
Proof of Work at it's finest 🥹 But also this highlights ways that developers can improve their clients to make everyone's experience better. We are early so that others in the future can have better experiences than we did.
Yeah, I have more focus on newbies than most because I know how hard this is. Most npubs that had it this hard probably left.
It's pretty cool how there's a whole bunch of people who love #thenostr enough to welcome strangers with open arms now, regardless of who they are or where they're coming from. I didn't have a huge welcome either but it was pretty early on. Zaps weren't thing yet & I had no clue how small the userbase was 😅
Yeah, but you also have to remember the sheer numbers we're dealing with, now. It simply won't be possible to chat with each one arriving.
Especially, as they sometimes come in big waves. I arrived at the same time as the e-girls and some guys thought I was one. 🙄
It was a big wave.
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