Oddbean new post about login | logout 500 Follower Celebration! Firstly, Id like to show some gratitude towards a few fellow bitcoiners here on Nostr that really continue to inspire me. 🍻 Today I gave up a 17year account on Reddit in celebratory sacrifice. I will no longer post on reddit again. So Im old enough to remember when “slashdot effect” was a thing and thinking Digg was going to be what reddit became… Anybody remember Digg? Fuck im old… In any event I love you guys. Consider this a “zapathon” -Any new follows, reposts, or thoughtful comments are getting a 3 digit zap. Please repost or boost ⚡️⚡️
Congrats on the social media platforms detox 🫂👏 and the 500 followers 🎉
Congrats!
Digg? Hell, I remember the old usenet boards, chat rooms on Excite.com, and using ICQ, all way before any other social media.
ICQ… Haha
17 years on Reddit!? Thank you for your sacrifice 😁 Please give #Minestr a go if you're interested 🙏
Youngster. I’m this many old: https://image.nostr.build/385da3b7159a78c255af04f5c51b9095865cebcef4e38552bfa7183bf1a7c2db.jpg
BBS for the win!
I played the shit out of this https://m.primal.net/Lfcl.jpg
The game I posted above is called Legend of the Red Dragon (called LORD by BBSers) and was one of the first "multi-player" games. You'd dial into your local (usually) BBS and you'd get a set amount of time you could play -- usually no more than 30 minutes since if you were playing, that means you tied up their only (likely) phone line. There were some other popular door games but this one was by far the most popular. BBSes were the Internet before the public had the Internet via Compuserve, AOL, etc. Usually the board owners would subscribe to various syndicated networks, a popular one was called FidoNET, where they would themselves dial into another BBS and download all of the latest network posts. Boards all across the world would dial into each other, do this, and thus replicate the network. If you got into a deep conversation with someone around the world, sometimes it would literally go on for months due to syndication aspect. This is why us old heads died from dysentery. LOL! #iykyk
I was never even on Reddit and never heard of Digg wow
Congratulations! I don’t have anything meaningful to add, just really well done. I’m now 100% Twitter and Meta free (no FB, Instagram, Threads, or WhatsApp). Reddit and LinkedIn are the two proprietary social media services I still haven’t managed to drop. Lemmy (ActivityPub-based) is nice, but Reddit still has a lot of useful content I can’t find anywhere else.
Sounds like a party!!!
Beautiful day for a zapathon https://m.primal.net/LfEl.jpg
Former member of the Diggnation here. I rebooted a Reddit acct after killing one years ago... If only to keep track of some communities but no longer feel any draw to it (but the draw the big Google wants to send me to). Just like I have an X acct but no longer post on (just check once a day and maybe an occasional comment). Still have an FB acct for a couple of communities that are very responsive and specifically related to trucking and more specifically Volvo trucks). I have no idea how many followers I have here. Depends on the client and the relays it seems... And I don't really care. I'm not playing for followers. If you like my vibe, cool. I like that this is more akin to early Twitter in community and that the likes are genuine and the zaps even more so, not because it's money but because it says "I got more out of this than just a quick tap".
THat's awesome! ...now, let's replace the forum addiction with a new (better? Bitcoin-y?) one: https://stacker.news/r/denlillaapan
I opened my Reddit a year ago, but since finding out about Nostr I have spent less than 10% of the time that I used to spend on Reddit beforehand! I will delete it actually now! #grownostr
Thank you for following me, I'm now following you back 💜 (Dat thoughtful enough 🤣)
Nice job! Yes, I remember digg and so many other early internet tools. We've come a long way in a short time.
kudos! 👏👏👏👏🥂🥂🥂🥂 well done! Out of curiosity, how long did it take you to get 500? I am asking because I just had a thread about this last night. I realised I did not have some reference point to help me understand nostr's reach. Do you post every day? Ty ☺️
3 weeks or so. I try to post in my breaks usually a bit everyday. Im semi retired so I have a fair bit of free time now that my boys are grown. The Most traction you will get will be when you are first to reply in a BIG users thread that looks interesting. Those threads get a ton of views and if you are adding value, people will follow you. Focus on the big users ypu really like. Interact with everyone in those threads and make friends! ☕️ 🧡🍻👊🏻🥩
interesting findings. Ty. nostr:nprofile1qqs06gywary09qmcp2249ztwfq3ue8wxhl2yyp3c39thzp55plvj0sgprdmhxue69uhhg6r9vehhyetnwshxummnw3erztnrdakj7qguwaehxw309a6xsetrd96xzer9dshxummnw3erztnrdakj7qgkwaehxw309ahx7um5wfjkc6t5v4ejummjvuhsh7980k and I were talking about this. Some folks had theirs 500 in a year. It is good that you have this insight too. 👏
Also a lot of users on Nostr disengage and don’t interact. In fact retention is close to 1%. Focus your energy on the active users. Some of the big accounts have 120k followers but if they post, only get a few thousand views since most are dormant.
this explains my confusion. I have been wondering this for the past 3 months. I was thinking how did people get 120k but the engagement is very low for their followers. This explains a lot now. U rock! 🫰🫰🫰
Hi, congrats on the 500. How do you know how many views a note / post got?
Im just extrapolating based on this data. @Lady Mae - Life Coach https://stats.nostr.band/ https://m.primal.net/LfmR.jpg
Now that is interesting data indeed. Will have a look more onto it. Do you know who to contact for questions around the data collected? Ty for sharing it ☺️
@brugeman runs Nostr.Band.
legend nostr:nprofile1qqs06gywary09qmcp2249ztwfq3ue8wxhl2yyp3c39thzp55plvj0sgprdmhxue69uhhg6r9vehhyetnwshxummnw3erztnrdakj7qguwaehxw309a6xsetrd96xzer9dshxummnw3erztnrdakj7qgkwaehxw309ahx7um5wfjkc6t5v4ejummjvuhsh7980k ty 👏
just learning that brugeman runs nostr.band :D
Damn, 3 weeks. 😅 That is insanely fast, geez. I post multiple times per day, since January, and am barely over 500. Are you user that those aren't mostly bots?
Congratulations on your milestone! Are you #nostronly then after leaving reddit? Or are there any lingering silos remaining in your digital life? In any case! It’s good to have you here! Great milestone 💪💜
Glad to see you enjoying this wild nostr space! 17 yr old account is alot to walk away from. Soon enough reddit will either become a nostr client or it will die. Reddit has been dying for years now sadly.
Reddit ≠ Reddit Nostr = Nostr
You are old. 😁 Just playing
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I am so old that apart from being bald I also remember SatoshDice 😂 Welcome!
Congratulations! I had a quick look at your profile, nice to meet a fellow Bitcoiner 🤗 I have recently joined Nostr. Like the positive vibe. Gave you a follow!
Thanks bro 🤝 And thanks for the zaps! I am posting about #Bitcoin only. I am following a bunch of people currently, and some obviously post better content than others. Do you perhaps know an easy way to track the top ones? Currently, I just type them in the search bar, but there must be an easier way.
Any ideas?
Wow and how felt it to give it up after 17 years? And who are the fellow bitcoiners that inspire you? And 🎉 for the 500 followers 😊
I’ve had a nostr for a while but I’m starting to warm up to it here more recently. Welcome! May says hello! 👋🐶 https://m.primal.net/LfnC.jpg
He looks spoiled! 🧡
*She is!! She goes literally everywhere with me. We are at work rn 😁
Not old, but experienced and wise 😁💜🫂✨🤙
Aging Like a fine wine… 🧡
THIS 🧡🫂🤙!
Never joined Reddit, did I miss a thing? 😂
Congratulations, the community here on nostr really is something special. I’ve had significantly more followers on other centralized platforms but have never had nearly as many genuine interactions with such cool people!
Respect 🫡 And followed 🤙 In case anybody wonders (like me): Slashdot effect is when a popular website links to a smaller one to boost traffic 📈
Back in the day when the internet was much less robust, a popular user ( slashdot.org) would make a post about a website and crash it. https://m.primal.net/LgjQ.jpg
Good Morning and congratulations 🎉 Trying my best to further increase your follower count 😅
Auto Spell check browsers make this less funny but am i rite? https://m.primal.net/LgdK.jpg
Congrats and don’t forget Stack sats and stay humble
Digg and Stumbleupon!
I saw you zapped me but i get an error zapping you … Weird. @miljan #asknostr
doesn't work for me either. using primal
Love Primal and Damus - is crazy how Nostr works or sometimes doesn’t. I’ll try to get it fixed here tomorrow! Ty for the heads up!
shows you zapping me... https://m.primal.net/Lheu.jpg
Started on Damus and when they lost their ⚡️ I tried Primal. Not quite sure how but I clearly didn’t set up Alby just right to get zaps in….but my Primal wallet out works so thats good. I ended up just trying to reverse everything until I can figure out the Alby and Start9 configuration but I won’t have time this weekend to figure it out. TY for looking out Iggy!
My father once said that if in a difficult situation life turns its back on you, take advantage of your advantage and give it a spanking.
It's exciting to see organic growth happen on platforms without algorithms.. where information is distributed with PoW
