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follower count is not a priority to the devs unfortunately 💔 i would check with a different client, or maybe with profilestr

Follower count is irrelevant on nostr. The just consume memory. Any bot can create billions of accounts in a second to follow you.

We will bring a more interesting number when we finish the integration of web of trust providers

great to hear! 💜🎉

that's why it should cost 21 sats or lower to follow someone and you should have to renew after a year or something. That will keep bots and people not serious away.

Make it a Nip.

Who cares how many people follow you? Something more interesting would be like a proof of work in your pubkey for relays to respond to your requests or something like that.

I didn't say that I was interested in the number of followers. So why is the number displayed at the top center of the main bar if it's not important? New users, especially those who aren't familiar with Bitcoin, are put off by this. I've been following this since the beginning, but the network isn't growing; it seems to be stagnating.

They can't figure out how to solve the issue so they just decided to say it's not important instead of admitting it. It is growing but very slowly. The reason it's not growing fast is because it's takes a learning curve and the fiat people have a hard time with learning things Another issue is most people don't like social media because the fiat social media is full of fakeness, so it's hard for them to fully understand what nostr truly is. Most people don't use X and nostr is too much like X except for the decentralization part. If they removed the bots from X. It would be a bit bigger then nostr but not as much Followers and following is important because it's a good way to find who others follow. Same with friends list on Facebook. It's awesome looking through people's friends. The solution is simple. Require stats to follow someone in order to keep the bots down, even Facebook has the friend request feature which is great to keep bots away.

However, 98% of the content generated is meaningless. The countless Hetzner servers (Hetzner is just one example; I will likely block their network range) that generate hello world chats and bots are also quite bothersome. The issue is that an almost infinite number of keys can be created without any reference.

you mean 98% of the stuff on nostr is meaningless? Where are you seeing that? I haven't seen any of those bot in a long time. All the people I follow are interesting and post good things. I removed someone the free relays and the bots went away. The free relays are the problem and many people have the mentality that they want to keep nostr free. That's the biggest issue. You just need to make nostr work with micro-transactions and it will stay clean. Require stats to follow someone, require stats to send DMs. It's alot of work tho and devs are working for free so development of nostr is slow. It's fine. I like nostr at this moment. Reminds me of the early days with Facebook.

I don't know what you want from me. 98% of network traffic from Nostr is spam and junk. You don't understand what this is about. I'm not particularly interested in Bitcoin payment stuff. Nostr is a Bitcoin nerd niche and will always remain so. Non-Bitcoin nerds don't want to know anything about Nostr because they use Bluesky or Mastodon. Spam and crap It is already being looped through to other networks by bridges. Mostr and chat servers do not make it any better. Free relays are not a problem because you do not have to use them. It is that simple.

You should leave nostr. You sound dumb. You'd be better off on bluesky.

I don't know why you're talking my ear off when you clearly don't understand what this is really about. I use all three, but not in the way you think. Last post on this.

if being honest it's too late for these kinds of it shoulds. there is no mechanism to agree on and implement any kind of across-the-board standard in nostr. the cut off for that was around 2 years ago. we went from signed json events on websocket relays, to a genuine social protocol, and now we're more or less back to signed json events on websocket relays, just with more tooling and a few vestigial structures. not that a sort of devkit for signed json events on websocket relays is a bad thing. but that's where we are now.

Decentralized moderation solves bots.

Let me be my own wot provider and show back-followers. My follows are important to me yet with Amethyst it's often hard to mention them as their names appear not to get indexed.

Who cares. I don't care how many people use it, only who uses it. If one guy other than me uses it and he has very interesting things to say, I will use it too.

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