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elsat | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 I once again challenge the giga brain devs:

Step 1: Auto identify and curate list of banned accounts from twitter.

Step 2: Invite said account + followers to nostr explaining the unique value prop of nostr. 

cc @fiatjaf
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7fqx | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 This is a good place to start:

https://findmyfrens.net/

A list of people who are/were often banned from twitter and made a place to go check their new accounts.
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elsat | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Who maintains this site?
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Eye Reply. | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The CIA.
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7fqx | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 No idea tbh. I would probably guess Millenial Woes tho, if I had to.
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fiatjaf | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Why "auto"?

https://paulgraham.com/ds.html
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elsat | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I am doing things that dont scale, as are many on nostr. 

Having an auto generated shortlist is like outbound sales lead gen. There is some basic criteria, for instance:
1) banned from twitter
2) minimum X followers, Y years account etc.

Then we get @damus @primal @Derek Ross and other somewhat active nostr accounts on twitter ( for social proof, if no other reason ) to reach out. 

Only the first step is automated (seems trivial to my non dev eyes). Unless @fiatjaf you volunteer your time for lead gen.
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fiatjaf | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I believe this thing you think is trivial is actually absolutely impossible. Even if Twitter voluntarily gave us programmatic access to their stats and a way to query them (which they probably don't, even if we pay the elon price) then how would we get the data for accounts that were already banned? These would not be available.

In any case I think automating the first step is also not very good, if you're going to approach someone with a crazy idea it's probably better if you know them at least a little bit instead of just having taken their name from a list.
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elsat | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Agree with you. On all but the last part. 

People are on nostr today not because its a 10x better experience. They are on nostr because of the ethos, and the potential of nostr. 

Between ten to a hundred missionaries the world is smaller than you might think.
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elsat | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 In four words:

“Do things that dont scale”