Initial traction on nostr shouldn't require money.
The introductions hashtag should work but it's held back by spam. I think people don't scroll through it more because it's unpleasant trying to figure out if the posts are from real people or not.
It would be really good to have a project where new users can actually meet with an existing nostr user in their area to prove they're human and get into a "web of humans" where it's easier to get traction.
The project could have a main npub that follows a list of trusted users to repost/introduce every new verified human, until growth gets too fast to keep up with. Maybe it could be automated and never fail to keep up.
On a future version of nostr, the "web of humans" would be based on web-of-trust profile tags, and the main npub reposting newly verified users would become outdated. This tag-based "web of humans" has little to do with this project, it should happen eventually whether or not a project like this ever does.
whoeverlovesDigit / 🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit
npub1wa…6u3l2
2025-04-21 10:49:32
in reply to nevent1q…6cvp
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2025-04-21 10:49:32Event JSON
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