Makano Michi on Nostr: If I'm not mistaken, grifting, causing arguments, offending people, or exploiting ...
If I'm not mistaken, grifting, causing arguments, offending people, or exploiting someone's beliefs is generally the easiest way to get followers in those algos. I like trolling sometimes, but I wouldn't have patience to do that all the time unless I'm making a living out of it. What gets me is when someone says they want to do it because they’re passionate about a cause or just as a hobby, yet they give up as soon as they don’t get many followers.
quoting nevent1q…zzh2I 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?