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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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What I do is follow a bunch of people, try the feed and filter out follows that I find doesn't fit in, rate the strategy
That is a good way to start, but don't feel bad about having a heavy hand at pruning people from your feed. It is yours, and it should be the feed you want to see.
Muting is useful too, to trim away parts of Nostr that you never want in your feed.
Defo keeping you in my list tho🤙
Follow for follow is retarded. Totally agree
💯 This is my experience. I follow only npubs that I think add quality to the little bit of time I want to spend online. I don’t need a big group and it’s irrelevant to me whether people I follow want to follow me. Who am I to decide who or what they find worthy of their attention.
This runs the risk of major confirmation bias
You're free to set up your feed however you want. I'll continue to choose true human interaction and sincere connections. I see no reason to act otherwise.
so does real life.
the algorithm that saves you is choice.
Given that it is free to make an npub and there is no central authority to ban them, bots are always going to exist.
Muting is a solution that requires eternal vigilance. Also look into using WoT relays, which helps a bit too. More solutions will start in the future, but expect a never ending battle as AI becomes more powerful as well.
Being thoughtful with your follow list is important to.
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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Unfortunately the power of reach on nostr is currently basically Jack and Derek's reposts. The whole nostrmicroblog is built around the tastes of like 5 people.
5 people are dictating the vine for 24 of us 😤
Vibe*
I've definitely found a different crew. I'll admit it's not easy though. Maybe that's what makes the group you do find especially good though, the shit they had to go through to find each other? 🤔
Their reposts and the Primal recommendation list is like 90% of follows. 😂
I think the strategy for that probably differs a lot from person to person.
Example, I have good luck following a bunch of active accounts and then narrowing it down as I see more of what they post to start off, then when the feed feels good start slowly adding later.
In other words editing as I go is more natural to me than being meticulous about it at the start when I have little frame of reference.
I bet it’s different for different people.
I followed too many to begin with, and now I find trimming it down is hard. I wish there were better tools available to see how I've communicated and interacted with other people in the past. Once you're past the Dunbar number it's all a blur. More clients supporting multiple lists for follows would be a huge benefit, having categories for different reasons for following.
I can see that too. I probably have some inactive accounts in my follows still, but I also never really followed randomly, I just traveled through the follow lists of the people I already know up here and grabbed a bunch if they just clearly seemed like real accounts at a glance and had posted anything recently.
