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Your followers are posting absolute fire and I have no idea they exist. Thatโ€™s the reality of Nostr. Weโ€™re all living in our own network bubbles. The people you follow and interact with every day? Iโ€™ve probably never seen them. And the people in my feed? Completely invisible to you. No algorithm mixing us together. No corporate feed forcing connections. Just pure decentralized chaos where entire communities exist parallel to each other, never touching. Some of you have been around me for months or years. Weโ€™re locked in. But your followers? The people YOU think are brilliant? Iโ€™m missing all of them. And youโ€™re missing all of mine. This is both Nostrโ€™s greatest strength and its biggest challenge. We actually have to work to expand the network. Discovery doesnโ€™t happen automatically. It happens through reposts, through signal, through people actively bridging their networks together. Right now, someone in your follow list is dropping knowledge I need to see. Perspectives that would shift how I think. Content that matters. And Iโ€™m completely blind to it because our graphs havenโ€™t connected yet. So hereโ€™s what I want. I want to see who YOU follow. I want your network to crash into mine. I want the people you respect to show up in my feed. If youโ€™ve never interacted with my content before, if we exist in different parts of this protocol, REPOST this. Let your followers see it. Letโ€™s smash these network bubbles together and see what happens. This is how Nostr actually grows. Not through algorithms. Through us actively choosing to expand the graph. Your people need to meet my people. Letโ€™s make it happen.

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I dont know when I stumbled upon @Contra's feed but Im glad I did. His long-form posts always give me something to think about.
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Your followers are posting absolute fire and I have no idea they exist. Thatโ€™s the reality of Nostr. Weโ€™re all living in our own network bubbles. The people you follow and interact with every day? Iโ€™ve probably never seen them. And the people in my feed? Completely invisible to you. No algorithm mixing us together. No corporate feed forcing connections. Just pure decentralized chaos where entire communities exist parallel to each other, never touching. Some of you have been around me for months or years. Weโ€™re locked in. But your followers? The people YOU think are brilliant? Iโ€™m missing all of them. And youโ€™re missing all of mine. This is both Nostrโ€™s greatest strength and its biggest challenge. We actually have to work to expand the network. Discovery doesnโ€™t happen automatically. It happens through reposts, through signal, through people actively bridging their networks together. Right now, someone in your follow list is dropping knowledge I need to see. Perspectives that would shift how I think. Content that matters. And Iโ€™m completely blind to it because our graphs havenโ€™t connected yet. So hereโ€™s what I want. I want to see who YOU follow. I want your network to crash into mine. I want the people you respect to show up in my feed. If youโ€™ve never interacted with my content before, if we exist in different parts of this protocol, REPOST this. Let your followers see it. Letโ€™s smash these network bubbles together and see what happens. This is how Nostr actually grows. Not through algorithms. Through us actively choosing to expand the graph. Your people need to meet my people. Letโ€™s make it happen.
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Following users matters on Nostr if you wish to see content. Reposting helps. Against better judgement, I open the firehose daily and continue to mute all of the bot/porn/foreign language accounts, and work to find signal amongst the leftover noise. Follow every one of them. A handy feature on Primal or Damus would be a firehose filter if one doesnt already exist.
This can work to help people grounded in real communities, and the mix of universal and local can benefit the community without exposing it to a raw universal bombardment.
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Nostr and the Church in a Hostile World
Much of the churchโ€™s life now takes place in digital spaces it does not govern. The structures of those spaces shape how authority, identity, and witness are formed, often in ways the church does not choose. Nostr offers a different model. It allows communication without surrendering identity or visibility to a single corporate system. Churches do not need to host infrastructure to participate, but doing so allows them to create digital spaces ordered toward their own pastoral life and public presence. Nostr does not make the church faithful, but it offers a way to remain present in the digital commons without being managed or reshaped by it.
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