AVBpodcast on Nostr: You write a blogpost: censored by X in the algorythm, since it's on substack , almost ...
You write a blogpost: censored by X in the algorythm, since it's on substack , almost no one sees the post.
You share the same content on highlighter / nostr platform : no one clicks it nor reacts. Since it had no nice picture in it.
You share it again, this time with a nicely generated picture you've made with a paid servive for better results: 2 people click it. No reactions.
You buy a sub. to a podcast engine and you create a podcast with two voices and a new bullitin.
+80 downloads, no reaction.
You release it on a podcast v2 platform, but no one listens through that platform in Belgium, they don't get it. And in their mind, that's the only platform you're on ... so they don't know Fountain app and they don't click it.
So you share the links to all the other platforms as well, and you create a separate page where you share all the links to spotify and so on...
No one cares.
So you write another blogpost and since it's "too long" (it's a long-read format), you add a professionaly made audio recording of the podcast/blog so people don't have to read and can just listen to it on the go.
9 people open it.
The reach on nostr, X and BluseSky together is always under 10 hits.
So... people tell me "hey man, why don't you make youtube videos in English".
"Because I have a podcast, not a youtube channel or so. I do audio only for a reason: if people want to listen to the content anyway, they can do so without seeing me sitting behind a microphone".
So... here we are.
3 years podcasting for the Belgian audience. And I can safely say that the 100 or so of core audience is reached.
And I won't be a reply-guy spammer either.
It is what it is. A dismal state of affairs in a country where you're a pariah whenever you try to do something independent.
You share the same content on highlighter / nostr platform : no one clicks it nor reacts. Since it had no nice picture in it.
You share it again, this time with a nicely generated picture you've made with a paid servive for better results: 2 people click it. No reactions.
You buy a sub. to a podcast engine and you create a podcast with two voices and a new bullitin.
+80 downloads, no reaction.
You release it on a podcast v2 platform, but no one listens through that platform in Belgium, they don't get it. And in their mind, that's the only platform you're on ... so they don't know Fountain app and they don't click it.
So you share the links to all the other platforms as well, and you create a separate page where you share all the links to spotify and so on...
No one cares.
So you write another blogpost and since it's "too long" (it's a long-read format), you add a professionaly made audio recording of the podcast/blog so people don't have to read and can just listen to it on the go.
9 people open it.
The reach on nostr, X and BluseSky together is always under 10 hits.
So... people tell me "hey man, why don't you make youtube videos in English".
"Because I have a podcast, not a youtube channel or so. I do audio only for a reason: if people want to listen to the content anyway, they can do so without seeing me sitting behind a microphone".
So... here we are.
3 years podcasting for the Belgian audience. And I can safely say that the 100 or so of core audience is reached.
And I won't be a reply-guy spammer either.
It is what it is. A dismal state of affairs in a country where you're a pariah whenever you try to do something independent.