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 Signed up quite some time ago but failed to get to grips with it. Thought I would have another go as getting increasingly fed up with the cesspit that is Twitter. 

Struggling to find people to follow who have the same interests as me. 
 Have you explored https://nostr.band? 
 Just gotta give you a gentle hug and boost to help you find your flock. 
 Boosted Too, and followed. Welcome 🫡 
 Welcome to FreedomTech #finance55, happy to have you join us! 💜 
 Welcome!  What are your interests? 
 Finance, investing, money, early retirement, financial freedom. That sort of thing. 
 Awesome.  I’m 58 and got on the FIRE track in my 40s.  Mr. Money Mustache, JL Collins, all that.  I left ft employment at 54.  I thought VTSAX was the best asset to own, lol.  At the time, it was. 
 Vtsax? 
 Vanguard Total Stock Index Fund.  It’s a favorite of that space. 
 I know it! I used to be a daily bogleheads forum poster. Then I discovered Bitcoin. Haven't been back since. Hopefully they unblock the topic soon!! 

Rick Ferri did interview the Bitwise CEO (HH) recently which is a big, bold step by Rick for his podcast. (FWIW Rick was the 1st and the last person to podcast interview John Bogle.) 

Welcome Stephen!  🫡 
 I heard that Rick Ferri interview of Matt Hougen.  Excellent!  It seems we’ve been covering the same terrain, MarcG.  I also post to the early-retirement.org forum.  They’ve also banned any crypto discussion, which is getting to be ridiculous given the ETFs. 
 Welcome back!
What are you interests aside from finance? 
Whatever they are, it might help to put a hashtag with that interest under your posts so others can find you 🤙 
 What are your interests?  
 write/share more about what you care about and the right people will show up 
 Keep going! 
 It can take a little time. You’ll find your niche. 
 What are you interested in? On Amethyst you can search keywords to find conversations and follow people from there. 
 I've been posting occasionally but rarely do I get any engagement on new posts.

Fare slightly better with replies.  
 I don’t think there are that many people on here compared to eg Twitter. I guess it will grow with time. 
 I’d follow more people even if you don’t 100% agree with them- do searches for hashtags you find interesting. Biggest difference between dead bird and Nostr is you have to do the work and our bots tell you up front. I try to follow 10 people a day and cull the folks that post noise. 
 Thanks that’s helpful 👍🏼