waxwing on Nostr: Followers are neither vitally important, nor something you can just automatically ...
Followers are neither vitally important, nor something you can just automatically expect.
But they still matter.
I've often used this and similar microblogging just as a kind of notepad, writing down ideas and info/evidence for something I'm working on, meaning it does have some *small* value even when no-one reads it.
But even that rather unexciting way of using these platforms benefits tremendously from interaction with an audience, even a small one.
Enhancing discovery of accounts you might enjoy interacting with is pretty obviously... good?
But they still matter.
I've often used this and similar microblogging just as a kind of notepad, writing down ideas and info/evidence for something I'm working on, meaning it does have some *small* value even when no-one reads it.
But even that rather unexciting way of using these platforms benefits tremendously from interaction with an audience, even a small one.
Enhancing discovery of accounts you might enjoy interacting with is pretty obviously... good?
quoting nevent1q…smllI 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?