If users are so obviously desperate for engagement that they will use something like Buzzbot, why haven't Nostr clients focused on developing better discovery mechanisms? #asknostr
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many cases of simple impatience and unhealthy desire for followers, rather than acceptance of the time and consistency it takes to have genuine community and peer discovery here
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This is why pay2trend and pay4friends will never really work, it's just fake engagement to pump follower count. The people that want that can have it. It's also useful signal for people who want authentic community & conversations *not* to interact.
yeah I was hyped up on buzzbot thinking it was pretty cool but it extremely quickly turned to an exploit and an anti-signal.. going to be interesting to see the continued developments for discovery and zaps
When I first started using nostr via the primal app it was so difficult to find people worth following I almost gave up on nostr.
Then I tried amethyst and openvibe and found a bunch of people to follow on the global feeds.
It took a fair bit of work.
Going through muting more than half the people that primal automatically followed(homoerotic cryptobros and scammers) and finding people actually worth following.
At first on primal I tried looking up hashtags, but bots use hashtags more than anyone else here so that wasn't a good way to find people.
There definitely is room for improvement
Yes, the initial finding of your group is painful. That's why so few stick around. Only the strong willed survive.
Discovery mechanisms on Nostr are especially hard.
The client, if it's just a client (i.e. if the only servers it talks to are relays, and a mere HTTP/HTTPS just for hosting the client itself) doesn't have the whole database at its disposal. Each relay has different data and the Nostr protocol is limited. Finding good heuristics for discovery which can be implemented in a way which is efficient and fair is hard.