Large accounts ask stupid questions, sometimes. They have no clue how Nostr works for the other 99%.


Their entire experience of Nostr interaction is so different that they might as well be posting on the moon.


I have a lot of people that follow me. I have plenty of pain points, just like you do. Nostr has issues for everyone. What do you think I am not understanding or missing? I


You're one of the only ones who has a clue. 😂


I strongly suspect that the Nostr experience for plebs is orders of magnitude worse than for large accounts. The 1% experience smooths over so many of the technical issues. Not saying they can’t be resolved, just that the “large follower” experience, currently, is not representative of the 99% experience at all… so be wary of influencer opinions on Nostr in general.


it's also interesting that it prompted a response


But generally
1) Why npubs boost their own notes, including replies.
2) Why npubs care about follower count.
3) The importance of seemingly pointless rituals, like GM notes or hellthreads.
4) How trendlists work.
5) Dealing with harrassment.
6) Trying to start off a new npub, when you don't know anyone here and have a WoT score of 0.
7) How quickly new npubs become discouraged by negative feedback.
8) The importance of relay management.


Thank you 🫂😂 I try to make it my mission to understand all of the pain points that people have so that we can improve and grow Nostr.


Fire list. I'll start adding these to my how do Nostr notes.


Here. Take this microphone....
🎙


GN! PV! 🤙


WoT score?


I strive to be a voice for the plebs that cannot be heard and try to make them heard 🫂


There's also simply the aspect of time. Npubs that have been around longer don't only tend to have more followers, they are also on the "recommended" lists, have stratospheric WoT scores, and every fart they make trends.

So new npubs automatically follow them and they make zero effort to attract anyone with better content. They post lacadaisically or seldomly, and often just wash-rinse-repeat the same sort of thing over and over, which is why Nostr seems so dull.

The funnel effect has been so strong that they had no incentive to change or think about how to attract more followers, and that has made them intellectually lazy and arrogant. So, when they see someone more ambitious using novel tactics they're like LOL.

But we have DVMs, now...


Web of Trust


Is that a figure of speech or there's an actual score?


i am here to make people see into the darkness and realise the light that they didn't see

so i also respond for similar but different reasons

i'm not a big account, i actively offend my followers because i don't care about their fawning i'm here for the advancement of collective understanding


nostr:npub1cgcwm56v5hyrrzl5ty4vq4kdud63n5u4czgycdl2r3jshzk55ufqe52ndy things to consider idk if they are entirely applicable to what you are working on tho 💜


ich bin die Dunkelheit in deinen Hoden, Schlampe


The new thing is asking why it matters how many followers you have.

It's like...
Go to the trendlists.
Go to the wikis.
Go to the git clients.
Go to the article readers.
Go to the search fields.
Go to...

Whose stuff do you see, everywhere?
You see my stuff, right?
Why do you think you see it?
Thank you for playing.


how sad to be so pathetic you try to use homoerotic and nazi imagery to try and intimidate someone


What’s point 7 about?


the new thing is being provocative

turns out that saying no and disagreeing is the new agreeing and saying yes


How some bigger, older npubs attack newer, smaller npubs, and sic their cronies on them.


at least today I learned the word "lackadaisically"


did it make pleasure for you then?


you ain't in kansas anymore toto


i see, you like having it in your ass then?


Damn, I need to pay more attention, I have no idea this is a thing


I call them pile-on mobs.


it's a property of the pubsub social architecture


but you liked it when i did it to you, no? you said you did!


oh, how unfortunate, my client blurs your delicious image, what am i to do

oh yeah, maybe not reveal it

so, what else have you got?


tell mister demon fallen angel bitch in his plastic body armor that he can have his legitimacy back when i say so


Yes lol, and some of the these accounts are just carrying over bitcointwitter clout which is sadly lapped up.

Still a long way to go from being a bitcointwitter clone/off shoot,. culturally.

Once feeds work properly and are on most/all clients, is probably the best shot at changing nostr for the better 🤞🤞 hopefully.


Coracle show this (it's playing up a bit atm tho lol)


Not really... I'm just making a guide on how to use amethyst. If it's not a total flop, maybe I'll try some other guides too but that is yet to be seen


tension = retention... and the algo gets the bad rep, right?


idk but it's a new kind of warfare


what do you mean relay management 👀


Make sure you put it in the wiki!


wss://relay.poster.place - only relay you need, relay bouncer
wss://poster.place/relay - All spam and asian languages filtered out


Yeah, living off of past clout and fumes, basically. 😂


Anything novel is provocative and upsetting to someone (usually most people, as humans eschew change).

Sometimes I formulate things mildly, sometimes I agitate, but it makes no tangible difference. People who are ready for a message accept it regardless off the tone, and people who aren't, don't.


Yes, I've been consciously testing that. 😂


This 🎯👌


I don't even look at my nostr follower counts because it's unclear how accurate they are and different clients report significantly different counts 🙃


Depends upon the relays analyzed.


This tactic seems to occur on every social network that supports quote posting.


Rage-quoting?


Very interesting observation


Or just call it "dunking" / sending in your mooks.

If you haven't read it before, I highly recommend this essay:

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/the-internet-of-beefs/


100%.  No interactions on any content I post, just an army of bot accounts following me. Getting anything to propagate seems nearly impossible. I feel like if I put “Software developer” in my bio, the Nostr crowd might actually be receptive to it.


Software dev


Sadly, a lot of people like to just support the OP and are afraid to be an individual.


Had to refollow you. Guess it got dropped.


Following you as well. Sometimes good content moves slowly around the nostrverse


Followed


😂 Well, there's a pile-on under way on me, so yay.


OMG, really??? I was not aware


Wiki? Do I post to that??


It's a specific kind of article, so no.


For research papers? For developer? What kind?


I mean "kind" literally. As in, "kind" of article event. It has a different identifying number embedded in the underlying json file.


Pfft! Lol, gotcha!