Fr. Josh Miller on Nostr: To answer his question, just based off of observation: the one way to "beat" the ...
To answer his question, just based off of observation: the one way to "beat" the algorithm is through activity. I follow some accounts that have gone from zero to huge without offline celebrity influence, and they all seem to have one thing in common: constant, frequent posting. 10-20 a day, every day.
That isn't my game, and I don't care. Post what you want, when you want, and if people like it, cool. If they don't respond, cool. If they criticize, hey: that's the nature of bringing anything you create into the world. I've moved away from a "larger audience" because again, I don't care about that. I care about the decentralized nature of Nostr and, hopefully one day (but not holding my breath), Bluesky.
Social media in general reinforces one of the big no-nos when it comes to creative output: you do it for yourself, not for some perceived audience or, in this context, clout gained through fake Internet points.
I really don't get the people that complain that they don't get followers on Nostr because there is no algorithm.
I never got any followers in any of these platforms with algorithms (even though I used them actively for years), except when by some unexplicable hit of luck some people started using @lntxbot on Telegram and by word-of-mouth it got to Alex Bosworth and he mentioned it on tweet and then my follower count slowly grew from 50 to like 5000 over a 3-year period.
Is there a magic trick that allows you to go from 0 to 100000 by gaming the algorithm these days and then scam your followers a high-ticket course about how to get followers and become a millionaire? Or what are these people talking about? Why do they even want followers in the first place?
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