Am I in the wrong circles here, or has engagement gone down noticeably on Nostr?
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You must be in the wrong circles.
It's tough right now. Engagement definitely seems down. For me, I like things like F1 and sim racing. I've found one or two people who enjoy F1, but I haven't found anyone talking about sim racing. So, there's some light in the tunnel for me as I can have a little F1 discussion, but that's hardly enough to keep me engaged on Nostr.
Am I one of the F1 people?
Engagement has been on the decline for a long while. The spam last fall really hurt too.
I've been less active lately, working on stuff in real life, but I pop on and off. I just hate all the "GM" posts that have no substance that are always trending. I don't want to say good morning to thousands of people and have them say good morning back. Just a waste of time. I want interesting thoughts, news, and opinions and those are buried and lost under the good morning posts.
This one thread has more engagement than most Nostr posts I will come across this year haha.
I find engagement to be about the same, but I don't think the growth is there. Maybe this is just a niche thing and we have to accept it.
I unintentionally stirred up a hornet's nest.
It made for some good scrolling though, worth it!
No, I get really good engagement
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The tourists are gone. The bots are zapped. The algorithmic crack is out of the bloodstream.
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Quiet? Yes.
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perhaps not engagement but potential posts to engage with
Possibly related, but my social media usage has plummeted since making nostr my main driver.
Nostr is the first legitimate social media protocol we've ever had.
If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.
Wait, really? I was looking forward to you explaining it to me.
OK here goes: Disconnect from all social media, TV, news, etc. Go outside into nature, touch trees, forests, ocean, etc. Spend a good deal of time with nature. At least a week or two, preferably alone. Dopamine detox, rhythm entrainment with nature.
I assure you after you come back, you may feel a bit overwhelmed with nostr engagement.
I dunno. Timeline is very short on my account. Enjoying my time here. Thanks for the zaps!
It's been like this for a while, I suspect Mr jaf is right I think it's slowly dawning that no one is coming.... To use another microblogging app.
But nostr-as-microblogging has always been the dev chatroom (for the foreseeable future at least).
#alexandria is the most interesting nostr project by far
Until someone finally makes messageboard client ;)
Oh and square avatars
Nobody could explain Alexandria to me in 1-2 sentences. Can you?
That's what adds a layer of mystery to it.
It's like a library, so it must be explained on hushed tones (I'm not the right person to answer this).
It's like a ebookverse. That's my read of it anyway, as vague as that is.
it feels very stale at the moment.
The engagement is absolutely stale and finding quality content is difficult. I absolutely am not exempt from the βGMβ bullshit but I should start taking this app more seriously. People who say you just need to manually curate a feed are missing the point of why people use SM.
Nostr isnβt dead. Itβs just that RLE stole our engagement, and #Nostr refuses to beg for it. Proof-of-low-time-preference isnβt for everyone.
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I share the sentiment. Nostr isnβt necessarily excellent for mere lurking on the feed. However, if you initiate and engage you will find so much more terrific interactions here than anywhere else. At least that is my experience.
How does that change in the meantime?