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Love that. Powerful web of trust in this image btw. Hope you enjoyed the footy on Monday night. (Told you that you should've gone to watch the arsenal!)
It's a by-product of consumer culture
Being a voice in my rural village in my Townsville is much more powerful and meaningful. Tru
I don't even look at follower counts because it's takes too long to load, I hope they improve them in the future, with statistics like last time they logged in, so we can see if they are just bots or old accounts. That way we can see how many fake accounts the npub has and other stuff like that
Because followers = interactions
I seen your note because I follow you Derek
So welcome. Was great to meet you at @bitfest and talking about the future of music on Nostr. I Hope our paths cross again in the future.
A lovely photo. Thanks for sharing!
Medium. It's more complicated than that. People are too tied to influence, popularity, and ego. I'd rather have real meaningful conversations than a million followers.
Followers are lot less important here, but when you have no one reacting or commenting on your notes it's a little like screaming into the void.
Absolutely. We have a lot of work to do on this front. It's exciting. I believe we can marry a lot of our ideas and build something truly wonderful and impactful.
Even better
No follower, comment, reaction or zap count
Just show if the user commented, reacted or zapped a note
Finding "your" people is way more beneficial to your life, than being followed.
And I get that. No one wants to scream into the void. I do wish a major client would take a stance though and remove follower counts. They're not accurate anyway.
I'd agree and also add that it's not healthy either.
Agree. It's healthier too.
Jumble
I don't mind that idea either. It's a unique take.
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Yeah, I get your point now.
It's the follower count you're talking about, not just that people are trying to get followers, but obsessing over the actual number of followers?
One follower that actually interacts and comments is worth more than any number of followers that don't interact
177.127 followers lol
must be fake
If there is a metric within Web-of-Trust that can be calculated by apps, it should be surfaced and normalized.
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@npub12vkc...pugg
View quoted note →That’s how I feel since joining #Nostr
I'm having a hard time getting normies to understand this...😑💜🫂
Appreciate the kind words, @Aaron of Essex Glad you like the photo. Always good to catch up with friends.
By their fruits ye shall know them.
The people who trust/verify my content, live it and live a successful life because of that, are my PoW and WoT
View quoted note →The way the users themselves collectively reflect on the social network, and this reflection leads to real transformations, real developments by the devs, and real experiments, is fascinating on Nostr and differentiates it A LOT from legacy social media.
This place is a giant laboratory. Sooner or later, big media will discover this and start using Nostr as a laboratory and field research too, and it won’t take long.
In theory yes.
But if you have more counts in general you have more chance to find your people.
Follower count does matter when we are talking of
@AQSTR 🤪
Gnarly bro
Big media will be here in a month 🤓 Keep building.
100% 🫂
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true!
GFY millennial
I worked hard for this reach!
#few
Just be on here and have fun.
I agree 🫂
oh no... 😁
The obsession with numbers is the illusion of significance; the crowd measures shadows while the essence slips quietly by. Power resides not in visibility, but in the silent currents of influence that shape minds unseen.
What’s the best way to find/groew your pack on Nostr? Hanging out here for almost 2 years now. I feel stuck
I don’t follow you. Still interact with you through what’s trending.
We're gooner win the league
Web of trust doesnt work
"People should consider moving beyond this archaic metric" = code for Nostr can't do that.
If Nostr could we would be happy to promote it as "the decentralized way to build a healthy follower count" or something like that. But it can't, so we call it archaic instead.
real change is made in person, on local communities or events.
online cloth is more profitable, tho
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You most likely have a lot more than that. Amethyst's counts are completely broken. They're essentially a Shitcoin.
what community are you in?
who is my people ? what kinf of people i want in my life ?
Yeah it's been a long while since I worried about follower counts.
It feels better to just send your expression out into the Nostrverse & trust that whoever needs to see it, will.
Thank you for donating so much of your time & attention to Nostr Derek. This protocol wouldn't be the same without you. 🫂
How do you measure that? It would be a very interesting metric as a podcasting roi
Personally, podcasting has brought me so much more than money. Skill. Friends. Opportunities.
Perhaps the WOT is a better reflection of that?
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