I'm gearing up for a similar thing. I want a network of real people, so I've been following every reply I see. Once I've hoarded enough I'll go through and unfollow those that don't exactly fit.  

 Nothing wrong with pruning.  

 gotta prune so more branches will grow in the right direction 😁  

 & lop off the suckers 

 this ^ is farm talk   loppers r shears & suckers the random shoots 

 I had to do that too recently, and I wish I had a way to filter for anyone that I haven't interacted with and just remove those. I mainly do that when I realize Im spending too much time scrolling.  I removed just ones that I don't ever remember seeing or responding to. 

I also did the following: unfollow all big accounts (like Derek etc) even tho they seem like cool people. Mainly if they say something important that I should know, one the smaller accounts that I interact with will probably mention it. So it's like an information hierarchy or kinda like a smaller working group session. 


I don't look at my follower list anymore. I realized that's a dangerous pitfall bc if I notice someone drops off, I then go into this spiral of "what did I say that offended them". 

My mantra now is it's their business whom they follow. It's my business whom I follow.   

 yeah, it really flips the whole model on its head doesn't it? 

 I'm not saying you or any one else I'm following is a small account by any means haha. 

Just it makes more sense to me with this new social media that after a couple responses for any one post, someone is likely to get more overwhelmed rather than less.

 So if those large accounts get dozens of replies, there's no way they can empathetically respond to everyone there and I can see that going one of 2 ways: they become jaded celebrity and it affects their personality or they just leave altogether because it's like another job .

So I like how Nostr is like organically facilitating small group discussions and super ambitious people out of those can take the ideas over somewhere else and circulate them.

One day we will be discovering new Nostr social Networks and they will have cracked the code of something months prior and we will only hear about it now. Because of decentralization.

I do still follow Jack, so when his posts pop up, it's kinda like God issuing a statement. But he does that rarely, so I assume he has his Jesus profile walking among us to distribute loaves and fishes.  

 haha, yeah, i think it's just the case that you can only really deal with your 12 disciples so when you get too many people engaging you have to get rid of the ones who are not as serious

your fault, bringing up Jesus again 

 also i'm not really a big account... i just like to get engaged with people who i perceive are adding to the conversation, mainly that actually means teaching me something... or at least making me feel like i have a student 

 That teaching thing is a gene I'm convinced. My grandparents, parents, and uncles were all teachers. But it skipped my generation. My siblings and I run away from all teaching engagements.

But if you have the passion, it's like you must teach even if it's just 12
 

 well my mother was always teaching me things but she got sick and her trade before she was a mother was nurse... and my father was always trying to teach things but he was terrible at it, super cranky and demanding, more of a tyrant of a teacher... and yeah, before that, my mother's father also a teacher and engineer 

 I'm pretty low quality, but I'll miss you if you disappear from my ramblings 

 Same 

 that's what a high quality follow would say 

 Your banner photo foreshadowed this event. 

 well, tire fire is just an expression i picked up from that crazy shinoa fores guy as a way to talk about things that are beyond terrible 

 Gotcha. 

Well behave my dude. Get well with your health. I wish you the best 👊 

 Nobody cares. Leave and nobody will care. Life goes on. 

 survivorship bias is a thing 

 That is true.