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17 years on Reddit!? Thank you for your sacrifice π Please give #Minestr a go if you're interested π
BBS for the win!
Congratulations! I donβt have anything meaningful to add, just really well done. Iβm now 100% Twitter and Meta free (no FB, Instagram, Threads, or WhatsApp). Reddit and LinkedIn are the two proprietary social media services I still havenβt managed to drop. Lemmy (ActivityPub-based) is nice, but Reddit still has a lot of useful content I canβt find anywhere else.
STAY HUMBLE AND STACK ZAPS (seems more appropriate for this post where you're going nostr only now)
Woah, heydays of the decentralized internet
Yes, I used to teach about it and Digg.
You and I have some things in common. We should connect sometimes.
Thank you for following me, I'm now following you back π
(Dat thoughtful enough π€£)
Awesome. Followed.
Boost/repost?
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I do dig your vibe. A lot.
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This is the short term goal
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Hello fellow Pilot
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Agreed.
Followed.
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Reddit is so noisy with bots, NPCβs, and echo chamber libtards that its barely functional.
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It is. Im flattered.
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The game I posted above is called Legend of the Red Dragon (called LORD by BBSers) and was one of the first "multi-player" games.
You'd dial into your local (usually) BBS and you'd get a set amount of time you could play -- usually no more than 30 minutes since if you were playing, that means you tied up their only (likely) phone line. There were some other popular door games but this one was by far the most popular.
BBSes were the Internet before the public had the Internet via Compuserve, AOL, etc. Usually the board owners would subscribe to various syndicated networks, a popular one was called FidoNET, where they would themselves dial into another BBS and download all of the latest network posts. Boards all across the world would dial into each other, do this, and thus replicate the network.
If you got into a deep conversation with someone around the world, sometimes it would literally go on for months due to syndication aspect. This is why us old heads died from dysentery. LOL! #iykyk
kudos! πππππ₯π₯π₯π₯
well done! Out of curiosity, how long did it take you to get 500? I am asking because I just had a thread about this last night. I realised I did not have some reference point to help me understand nostr's reach. Do you post every day? Ty βΊοΈ
Congratulations on your milestone! Are you #nostronly then after leaving reddit? Or are there any lingering silos remaining in your digital life?
In any case! Itβs good to have you here! Great milestone πͺπ
3 weeks or so.
I try to post in my breaks usually a bit everyday. Im semi retired so I have a fair bit of free time now that my boys are grown.
The Most traction you will get will be when you are first to reply in a BIG users thread that looks interesting. Those threads get a ton of views and if you are adding value, people will follow you.
Focus on the big users ypu really like. Interact with everyone in those threads and make friends!
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interesting findings. Ty.
@Silberengel and I were talking about this. Some folks had theirs 500 in a year. It is good that you have this insight too. π
Also a lot of users on Nostr disengage and donβt interact. In fact retention is close to 1%.
Focus your energy on the active users. Some of the big accounts have 120k followers but if they post, only get a few thousand views since most are dormant.
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this explains my confusion. I have been wondering this for the past 3 months. I was thinking how did people get 120k but the engagement is very low for their followers. This explains a lot now. U rock! π«°π«°π«°
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Glad to see you enjoying this wild nostr space! 17 yr old account is alot to walk away from. Soon enough reddit will either become a nostr client or it will die. Reddit has been dying for years now sadly.
Congratulations fam π» Nostr is the future and feels so much better than the other nonsense π€
Congratulationsβ¦those other platforms are so toxic. π€π»βοΈ
You are old. π Just playing
I am so old that apart from being bald I also remember SatoshDice π
Welcome!
Nice
Stay anon!
Hi, congrats on the 500. How do you know how many views a note / post got?
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Congratulations! I had a quick look at your profile, nice to meet a fellow Bitcoiner π€ I have recently joined Nostr. Like the positive vibe. Gave you a follow!
Yep. I remember when reddit was new and everyone was super helpful.
Now its a Toxic echo chamber bot fest.
Followed back
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Thanks bro π€ And thanks for the zaps! I am posting about #Bitcoin only. I am following a bunch of people currently, and some obviously post better content than others. Do you perhaps know an easy way to track the top ones? Currently, I just type them in the search bar, but there must be an easier way.
congrats on hitting 500! love the spirit. cheers to new beginnings β‘οΈ
Reddit is a cesspool. Congratulations on beating your addiction.
happy for you.
One down, more to go.
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Congratulations !!! πππ§‘
Congrats on the 500! π Giving up a 17year Reddit account is a big move β respect! I definitely remember Digg, those were the days. Excited to see more of your posts here!
Wow and how felt it to give it up after 17 years? And who are the fellow bitcoiners that inspire you?
And π for the 500 followers π
Iβve had a nostr for a while but Iβm starting to warm up to it here more recently. Welcome!
May says hello! ππΆ
He looks spoiled!
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*She is!! She goes literally everywhere with me. We are at work rn π
Not a care in the world oddly enough
Had the same with facebook and whatsapp, never missed it for a second
I still browse x and reddit occasionally but I like putting my energies here.
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Now that is interesting data indeed. Will have a look more onto it. Do you know who to contact for questions around the data collected? Ty for sharing it βΊοΈ
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Not old, but experienced and wise πππ«β¨π€
@brugeman runs Nostr.Band.
Damn, 3 weeks. π
That is insanely fast, geez. I post multiple times per day, since January, and am barely over 500.
Are you user that those aren't mostly bots?
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@Silberengel ty π
just learning that brugeman runs nostr.band :D
you are now officially a Nostr celebrity
Any ideas?
Just followed
Aging Like a fine wineβ¦
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Ty ser
You party animal
THIS π§‘π«π€!
I have my moments
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Hardly. π€£
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Never joined Reddit, did I miss a thing? π
A decade ago id have said yeah.
Youβre better here I think.
hell yeah I remember digg
Digg was great
β¦ then it wasnβt π€£
Congratulations, the community here on nostr really is something special.
Iβve had significantly more followers on other centralized platforms but have never had nearly as many genuine interactions with such cool people!
Welcome to #nostr
I see the retention as well. What about a view or impressions for a particular note you mention? Or is this something out of your head?
I wasted precious time on fb π
Respect π«‘
And followed π€
In case anybody wonders (like me):
Slashdot effect is when a popular website links to a smaller one to boost traffic π
on the way
Good Morning and congratulations π
Trying my best to further increase your follower count π
Oh Really ! 17 yr reddit jail u have beaten Julians record
Congrats and donβt forget
Stack sats and stay humble
Yup and oddly enough I wasnβt early enough to get Telluride and had to take Telluride12 haha
Auto Spell check browsers make this less funny but am i rite?
Back in the day when the internet was much less robust, a popular user ( slashdot.org) would make a post about a website and crash it.
Thank you
βAnd yes, the interactions here are certainly more genuine.
Im excited to put energy into this platform because itβs more important than ever.
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Digg and Stumbleupon!
Yer wallet no werky
I saw you zapped me but i get an error zapping you β¦
Weird.
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#asknostr
doesn't work for me either.
using primal
am I late?
Nope
thanks π₯
Hello...
thank you sir π€
π₯³πcongratulations bro
My father once said that if in a difficult situation life turns its back on you, take advantage of your advantage and give it a spanking.
I know a more vulgar version of that saying haha
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Hit me for a boost Ill zap again
It's exciting to see organic growth happen on platforms without algorithms.. where information is distributed with PoW
I started using Alby a day ago and I donβt think I have the right setup. Iβm hoping to get it fixed before the weekend.
Love Primal and Damus - is crazy how Nostr works or sometimes doesnβt. Iβll try to get it fixed here tomorrow! Ty for the heads up!
shows you zapping me...
No bots. I just try to find something in common with people and make a thoughtful reply.
Started on Damus and when they lost their β‘οΈ I tried Primal. Not quite sure how but I clearly didnβt set up Alby just right to get zaps inβ¦.but my Primal wallet out works so thats good. I ended up just trying to reverse everything until I can figure out the Alby and Start9 configuration but I wonβt have time this weekend to figure it out. TY for looking out Iggy!
Nice to meet u. New follower!
Awesome! Congrats!
