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I AM A NOSTR NOOB, TEACH ME WISE ONES I want to love Nostr and use it more. My problem is discoverability - it’s very hard to recreate a social graph + algo that beats Twitter. I see less content here and people see my posts less, so I have fewer conversations. How do I bootstrap the nostr graph without so much drudgery? Help @ODELL @npub1az9x...m8y8 @Lyn Alden @JeffG and anyone else I know in this place

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Follow the devs because they are making this and we all interact with them. @jb55 @fiatjaf @Gigi @Derek Ross @npub1yaul...vjmf @santos @npub1vp8f...npsw @npub1v0lx...qj49 @Karnage @BITKARROT (and many more I am remiss) Follow the @Wavlake team and artists as well @rheedio @npub1eequ...at9s @Ainsley Costello @Joe Martin 🎶🟠⚡ @npub1a377...5r4w just to getcha started Then there’s @tunestr with @OpenMike @Drainscreen @Saltycyrus and don’t miss Monday night’s stream live from @Vinyl Lounge in Nashville with artists from @Phantom Power Music Many of us stem from @npub1jwev...qha6 so if you’re ever in the desert, come hang 🤙 There’s a lot going on here 🔥 🔊 signal from @Guy Swann @Lyn Alden @Nunya Bidness @Jor @DJ Valerie B LOVE💜 @Svetski Art from @🟠 isolabellart Photography from @npub17amt...nldk Memes by @corndalorian And @QW is the mayor and does @Plebchain Radio with @Avi Burra #plebchain live on Nostr Nests. Log in with @Alby. @Noshole is funny and @npub1el3m...l27r, finally, is the glue holding this whole thing together 🚀 LFG
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Following a lot of people rather than being really selective about your follows is a good strategy here. You see way more conversations and good posts that are “one hop away” from your graph that you’d otherwise miss. Also I follow a handful of hashtags that are really helpful for branching out, but there is some risk there, fyi. I’m hoping clients start making some features (and/or thinking of doing this myself on the relay side if it’s not too much work) to help with the problem of spam and porn in global. More integrated web of trust visibility will help there as well.
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It’s a weird concept. You follow the people you want: Frens that you respect, admire or make you laugh… and then, you see those individuals on your feed, you interact with them when they post insightful notes, either commenting and/or zapping those notes with lightning ⚡️ After a few weeks/months/years, your account grows organically.
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↩ replying to Kristin Carrera
Starting from the beginning is hard… which is what makes this protocol great. Once you have accumulated followers, those followers continue following you in every diff app you use in the future. You won’t need to rebuild your followers from scratch, ever again. New Nostr client? All your familiar frens already there… it should work great as this space develops ✨
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↩ replying to hodlbod
THIS! Coracle is the best client for discovering people to follow. Just follow a few people you know, and then jump into Global with your minimum web-of-trust score cranked to 10. You'll find plenty of quality people and content worth interacting with. Quality replies then go the longest way to growing a base of people who care to see what you have to say, as well.
There is no easy mode. Algos were always a bad idea. The aim of the game is effective social connections, not followers at all cost. You earn your social network by, you know…..networking. The old fashioned way. Not by being fed like a baby bird from the mouth of Elon. I’m not in anyway trying to be abrasive. Just to help you see that the algo and ‘discoverability’ is exactly what makes your time on Nostr better and more effective in the long run. No more passive choices being picked for you….time to choose your own adventure! I’m sure you’ll love it in the end.