I'm done following newbies.
I follow and zap them, they don't follow me back, and they are never seen or heard from again.

I'm going to wait for them to prove themselves by being active. And I'm going to dump the dead fish I've already collected.


I used to have a soft spot for introduction notes with proof of effort

I don’t even browse new no more


Yeah, its like zapathon.
It was fun, for a bit. I've moved on.


Same here. Started seeing as a marketing stunt to attract listeners. Plus, we were not breaking anything anymore.


Maybe wine needs another relay lol as well as the welcome one. One which shows new users that have stayed after a week and have engaged in conversation or something lol

There's also a lot of new zbd users, who are a different sort of user really. Which I'm not against btw, they're just not really here in the same way the wider nostr people are here.


Why should I bother introducing myself? The people who can mentally and emotionally deal with me, stumble over my feed eventually, and the other people don't really matter to me.

https://image.nostr.build/eae4fb7a9350a746fabff32f4c05bb11f613c342afc5211d674ee221349979b4.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=500x538&blurhash=%7B%3FKB5Yj%5BafayofofWCay_NaykCfkj%5Bayofj%5B-%3Bj%5Bofj%5BWVWBoLfRxajtayayoLkCWCjsIoazWCa%7DfQjsa%7Ba%7DRjfQjsj%5BWBf6fQazt7ayWVayjsbHayj%5Bx%5Dj%40WBjtaya%7Cayazt8j%5Boej%5Bayf6fQju&x=4ceb6c3402781aafb77160944387ad9f6668d12098bf1f2c9d1d756822ec3c9f


Yeah, I detached the welcome relay. Pointless.

And those of us who post regularly will be seen by everyone, eventually. If they aren't following us, within a few weeks, it's their active decision.
And I respect that.


It's a nice idea for a relay, but yeah perhaps pointless. A lot more clients seem to have set up a first post with #introductions template anyway. They should probably all be doing that🤔


I would hope the more nostr grows the more zaps are a background function.

Do zapath0ns still exist? I think I still have that muted


Yes, but now we're welcoming bots and sockpuppets. 😂

We have bots with followers and welcomes and zaps, and then other people see them and follow them, too, as they figure they must be real, if they have so many good followers.

And that's how we end up with spammers with more followers than normal people.


I haven't seen any zapathon notes, lately, but I probably don't follow anyone in that crowd.


Lol yeah


This is a good introduction. I'd respond to this, perhaps.

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And a "like" is also a way of responding. They can follow the likes back to my npub and decide for themselves if they want to interact with me.

I am an open book.
Literally.
📖


I think I finally gave up after this one.

I was genuinely excited to have a fellow logistics dev on here, that I could geek out with, and then he just ghosted. ROFLMAO. Felt like getting stood up on a date.

Okay. Nevermind then.

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I enjoyed the Zapathons - a bit of fun while they lasted and a demo of the tech/wallets/LNURLS etc. Never were going to last though. I regularly prune my following list with a simple criteria: don’t post anything for 6+ months and I’ll likely unfollow you.


It's quite good people are at least checking out nostr, not that surprised about the retention thing (all the reasons everyone already knows).

There will hopefully be a time in the future where these people will check back in to see if it's progressed.


I actually am loathe to zap half-hearted introductory notes, as it finally occured to me that someone could just churn those out and collect the money.

Npubs show up, say "Hi, I'm new here!", and then we zap so hard that the profile trends.
And then the profile sometimes goes dormant.


Seems to happen more with girls' PfPs. Because reasons.

Makes me sort of envious, as only my bros zap me, and there's probably some dude in Asia collecting real money with pics of AI-generated mids standing in front of their fake kitchens or hugging their pretend pets. 🙄

You can often tell because they're so perfectly nondescript, unintimidating, and precisely mid.
Maths. 🤌


Hi, I'm new here!
Can someone help me find my way around Nostr? And what is this zap thing?
#introductions

https://image.nostr.build/ceb3e7fefc36d8c3dfb38f22631502ab40d0a9e3afb740d524f0058f18c0ae60.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=512x512&blurhash=UQH.1o-%3B%7EpD%24%5E%25xtNfRjNbM%7CV%3Ft7I%3Bt8%252j%5B&x=b5130317c22f33d3c1090efcc342822ed020d834650f2256b8158404f661d67a


I'm down to 3 months. And if you bore me or fail to interact with me, you also get dumped.

No more follow spam.


I think #siamstr might be nostr's biggest success as a genuine, active community (outside of BT expats lol;)). It's probably a totally different experience joining and having that to jump into.

Would love to know how that happened. Useful for people trying to replicate maybe? Would also be cool to see more regional/local interest groups popping up (there is perhaps a growing Chinese presence via the FreeFrom app, but not sure).

#grownostr #marketing


There's a German community because of the #Einundzwanzig guys, like nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc and nostr:npub1xuc7z6wskwqk7jj2ntyyce42gg757n4q7794dgwljpsfhpd7pzzshc97xc


I can't believe that's a real word


It means 21. 😂


I think we go sort of under the radar because we usually write in English.


haha what???


Yep - likewise.


That just got you a new follow, sir. 🫡


And I’ve just searched Die Gedanken sind frei, so there’s something I’ve learnt about today 👍🏼


GM Leserin! 👋 And welcome to Nostr! You are welcome to follow me and check out my following list to see if there's others that catch your eye 👍 I’m pretty #Nostr and #bitcoin focused, but some of the people I follow are not.
This will explain everything about Nostr and how it works: https://nostr.com/
If you have any questions try to use hashtags about the topic or #asknostr
Good luck and have fun!

#grownostr


LOL


Damn I guess you’re right….should look at peoples profiles before I trust that they are new. But at least I’m just blindly reaching out to connect instead of blindly zapping 😂🤷♂


That was cute. 😂


We need some reach-out bots that just respond to people being introduced, or something.


What was your breakfast today?


Is this "breakfast" in the room with us right now?


even ai bots can be fooled, just don't zap them newbies, only follow people that reply to your posts or have an interesting profile, that's what i do


Lolol


See! I’m paying attention now as I go down the list! 😂😂


For a great time, follow me (zapping optional)


Hi Leserin, and welcome. Nice trousers, btw.
Just let me ask you something. Did it hurt when they took your nails away?
Please don't send nudes. Ever.


Terrible interior decoration.


Bro what's going on with that light in the background 😂


Loooolz


What happened to your fingers? 😧


LOL.

I'm more wondering why her finger is missing a joint.


THERE WILL BE NUDES!

The nipples will be randomly placed on my chest, and I'll have triple eyelids, but beggars can't be choosers.


Details, details... Nobody is perfect.

No finger discrimination here.


The towel warming light is a great invention. 😂


But you can see, how I can count on my bros.
Bros before hos, fr.


Welcome 🤗


She's doesn't smoke herb?