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People > Algorithms Still new here and figuring out how to curate my feed. I’m following pretty much everyone, because I’d rather have more voices and more content to engage with. My theory is simple: if someone posts things I don’t like, or just spams, I’ll unfollow. But in the meantime: more content = more community. Is this the right move? What have you tried?

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I have been greedy to follow i don't follow no one. Only special people. I don't want my feed to be over crowded. I want small but engaging people. This idea is failing, i dont get much replies in what i post. And people vanish. So i think i will alsofollow your idea. You will grow. Your content speaks for itself.
All good suggestions. I’ll add checking out and/or following people from the feeds of those you follow. Open the profile of someone you’re following and see who they’re engaging with. The “friends of friends” concept.
At first I followed almost indiscriminately, but it got annoying because a lot of folks are just boosting primal trending page stuff so I was getting a lot of repetition. Then I tried following tons of hashtags and expanding my relays, but that leaves openings for a lot of spam. What I've settled on is a few quality relays some with paid membership, and following a few hashtags that are used mostly by people and blocking the bots that annoy me. I get a lot of fresh content, not too much spam, and I run out of new scroll material which is good. That's the sign I need to get off my phone anyways 😅 There's a million different strategies, have fun developing your own! Nostr is great because you are the algorithm, you get to brainwash yourself 💖
Search for content you're interested in and look for engaging people from there. Find someone that you really like their interactions and check their follow list. There are a ton of npubs here who don't just post engagement bait. Follow a ton then whittle it down.
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Welcome to Nostr. I did the same thing at first, and I'm still looking for more people to follow that share interesting content or have interesting insights or opinions. People to engage with. Following.space has some lists of people to follow that might be helpful. It's still early days on Nostr but there's a few different niche interest communities on here with really interesting people.
I follow only a hand full of active people, and then browse threads, replies, profiles, the occational hashtag etc. Always end up in weird fringe but relevant places rather quickly that way. In other words, other than the barebones minimum i don't use feeds at all.
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Ryan's avatar Ryan
An important thing I've come to learn about Nostr: The advice to build up a huge follow list is wrong. Cultivating a list of people with good viewpoints and honest intentions is a much more valuable. Follow people you interact with regularly who reciprocate your interactions with them. Follow for follow leaves you with a feed of low quality content, and a questionable list of follows riddled with possible bots and scammers. It is true that this is more difficult initially than platform based algorithm driven social media, but leaves you with a much more rewarding experience. The key to Nostr is honest human interaction, not legacy social media growth hacks to grow follower counts. #nostr #grownostr
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