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 You can tell who the Twitter people are on nostr because they barely follow anyone 👀

Gotta keep up that shitfluencer ratio ya know? 😂 
 🤣😂 
 Fuck the Twitter(ati). 
 I've reached out to a few and they return the  gesture by leaving you on read. Some have adapted but many ngmi 
 And dont forget all the block-happy safe speech people that file ridiculous reports 
 😂😂💀 
 💜💜 
 you can see people bring the specific vibe from their former social media...old habits die hard, but they will die cuz they dont work here 🤙 
 I really really can’t stand the shitfluencer ratio 😭

But what’s worse is that (at least on X) the algorithm penalizes following more than 50% of your own followers! 
 Blech. 🤮 
 That’s messed up 🤣🤣🤣 
 It really is tbh. Probably a countermeasure to bots and low quality follow for follow spam… but there has to be a better way. Too many real and talented users talking to the void on all of these mainstream platforms 😅 
 😮 Well I left them all behind & went all in here … granted I’m not adjusting to the TYPICAL situation perfectly but … we go on. SAME as always … be who you are. 

Some will hate , some will love 

Be honest 
Allow whatever will be to come 
I’ll die on that mountain (again) 🤣🥰✨ 
 😂 
 @jack you just got called in … care to explain? I wouldn’t either. 🤣 
 They’re much too important to be bothered by the pedestrian opinions of lowly plebs. 
 Just here to cross post and collect zaps but we see them 👀 
 I’m going the opposite 🙃. My ratio is probably really stupid (#plebchain), but at least my feed is interesting. Plus after being on Twitter for like 15yrs, #nostr is a breadth of fresh air. 
 It is but remember someone is are here to always lower the bar 

Me. I’m talking about me. Limbo Rocks 🪨 if you will. 🤣🤣🤣 
 People do seem a lot nicer on here. I’m still figuring out how to meaningfully engage with others. It’s a process I suppose… 
 Ya I think that because many #nostr folks share the values from #bitcoin, the community is tighter.
Also zaps definitely help the vibe & engagement levels too 😎. 
 Agreed! Zaps definitely help. Feels good to send some sats randomly and at quality content. 
 Most of them are retarded anyway  
 Web boomer take.

Some people only ‘follow’ people they actually like, interact and have relationship with. 
You know, more like real life and less LARP 🤓 
 Yeah, but if they've been here a while and can't find anyone worth following, then it says more about them than about us. 
 your numbers are arbitrary.
youre demands they meet your expectations, 🤮 
 Then again, we’re probably talking about different things. I’m talking about people who never progress much past 150 people ( the rough number of connections a human can have and maintain meaning), and what amounts to RSS feeds people follow. 
 150 is okay. Some npubs have like 1-10. 😂
May as well be bots and many probably are. Or some marketing department or whatever. 
 I read a study back in like…. 2008? About how more than 150 connections essentially make you shallow. It was a warning against Facebook as I recall. I’d like to find it again to see how much truth there is to it. 
 quite concessional - my "shallow" threshold was 1 connection. 
 "Spotted one there in the corner!"
https://i.nostr.build/nb520.jpg
nostr:nevent1qqszj7gv6sysqujyh24ecx5v9cygnqzhwc6jceqgs69jqtuwycm44hcpz3mhxue69uhkummnw3exjcfwwdcxzcm99upzpckv7l8jqspl8u4y54dn9rcduwlrs4v2040nxce0m2h0cunvrj8tqvzqqqqqqy37h4sc 
 I've been holding back on the follows for the sake of "curating my feed for signal" but I think I've gotten to the stage now where I'm ready to broaden my horizons. Any recommendations to sift through the noise once I've got a butt ton of follows? 
 All of nostr is the signal 🫡

I recommend looking at who I follow, all solid plebs 🫡 
 So... like the Psychopathic Autistic Bitcoiner that we all are... I just took your words way too literally and added everyone... let's see how this experiment goes 😂 next up... @reltbracco 's follows  
 ❤️‍🔥 LFG ❤️‍🔥 
 Content doesn't become amazing just because it's transmitted as a note by relays. 

Besides, with options to view follows, network, and global, it all becomes irrelevant. You curate lists, of which  'following' is just one.

It'll sort itself out.