Relays are more important than followers on nostr. We need to shift our understanding of this follower count metric along with likes. Very fist how we treat it. Use follow/like for building WoT. Use relays for your feed.
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Forget about follower counts in various Nostr clients, they're never accurate anyway. To get a decent number, countless relays would need to be queried. If you want to check follower counts, try nostr.band. They've been collecting data for quite some time. Log in and go to your profile. It shows most of your followers. I'm not sure though if it subtracts people who unfollowed you from your follower count.
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This is probably the best place to start: View article → But I really do think the best discovery and learning happens when you try to run your own relay (it's not that hard at all). Also check out #Jumble which is probably the best relay explorer out there.
nostr isn't some computer game like these little algerian dweebs i got stuck in prison were treating salah. it's legit communication. y'alls been spending too long on popularity contest sites like facebook and x and instagram and think that social media is some kind of social climber bullshit. ok, if you are getting money by getting audience, sure, but if you are looking for actual communication and drilling down to getting exposure to potential clients it's a whole different game. every niche is far smaller and popularity is not the goal, the goal is sales. you get that with authenticity and slick presentations. mainstream social media just turned into yet another advertising monetization scam just like the internet was before that with advertising. nostr is a different game. we can't just game the system and get blasted at the hugest number of people to get conversion. we have to actually target our niche properly.
Yeah, communication potential here in insane and very few understand this. Even a small community relay for you and your friends can see engagement that business marketing would kill for in legacy.
This is so true. MSSM has completely skewed the social mechanism. It has become far more attention seeking, because the only incentive is building followers and then expecting some ad revenue. When you are motivated by #zaps and honest #value4value, the entire game changes, and the incentive quickly becomes QUALITY OVER QUANTITY. LG🙌🏼
Quality over quantity for sure! And recognizing where the source of quality abides is even more important. Legacy socials get their "quality" from quanitfying users leading to the user having low value. Nostr reorients quality to the npub and your community engaments quantify your value.
Uhh its still the same. Nothing's changed except the platform people are on. Social media is still a advertizing place, only the rich & famous are the ones who get the most views & money from people. People still follow the same suit only follow what the majority says to follow. The pyramid scheme is still the same just different players & different names of places. You will never see individuals who are broke & poor be followed by over 100k, be recommended to checkout by vast majority, or featured in any section where they feature the same 7 people over & over again!
that's because you are looking at primal it's an entirely different experience on other clients i wouldn't be using nostr, and thus zero social media at all if it weren't for clients like jumble, nostrudel and coracle. i couldn't give a flying fuck about the topless tropical primal carnivore bois or fiatjaf or walker or carla, nor even particularly vitor or will. normies don't get it. that's because nostr is like borderless BBSs from the pre-facebook days, crossed with IRC and Hotline.
I do not use primal never have. I only use amethyst, jumble I seen, coracle has telemetry read the pp. Nostrudel looks cool but loads really like blurp blop bloop. I like your references I guess I am not a normie because I get that & lived those days lol. It's more then just which client your using.