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The bigger the network the lower the value of each member. On such a large network like twitter it can become hard to see people as valuable humans. You just see an other account.
Maybe. Just a thought.
Perhaps so.
The bigger the network, the more faces fade.
I prefer to recognize the hands behind each signature.
Even if they are few.
π₯
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They said:
βNostr doesnβt have the numbers.β
Yet on Twitter, with 6,000 followers, I sold just one painting in nine year.
On Nostr, in two years, Iβve sold over thirty.
Perhaps the numbers are elsewhere.
But here, there is value.
#art #grownostr
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DM for you
Guess those 6,000 were just scrolling... Meanwhile, Nostr folks are scrolling and collecting!
Keep creating, you're in the right place.πͺ
You have over 40k followers, lots of people with big npubs actively promote your posts and you're on the follow-recommendation/onboarding lists.
Hardly any one on here has a similar experience and nothing they can do will ever change that. It's the hopelessness, that causes them to leave. They can't see their follower numbers steadily increase with effort and interaction.
I've been hovering around 6k, for over a year, and most of those npubs are dormant or bots. My notes get 5 views, sometimes, and 4 of those are my alts. π
I understand the frustration.
But I didn't plant seeds for numbers β I planted to remain.
Nostr gave me little at first, but it never pretended.
Maybe thatβs what makes it rare.
Where everything is noise, even echoes sound like voices.
On Nostr, those who speak often have a face β and sometimes even a soul.
Iβm there.
Anywhere that respects art and silence
is already home.
You were just really early and made some friends in high places. The newcomers can't be early and they have no friends.
There needs to be some other mechanism for growing your follows, other than nepotism and Just Be Me.
Big numbers, little substance.
Iβd rather have twenty real eyes
than a thousand silent shapes.
Art is high risk too.
Especially the true kind.
Maybe being "early" helps.
But staying matters more.
Over time, presence becomes resonance.
Yes, weβre built different.
Less noise, more vision.
Yes, scrolling isnβt seeing.
Here, someone truly looked.
And chose.
On Nostr, itβs not about how many see you,
but who truly looks.
@corndalorian Brother, this is for you. Read this and smile till Monday.
Resonance _with whom_ ?
Who is being onboarded? All of the 14372 people who are here and active, have already had the opportunity to find me and follow me, and most didn't do it and won't do it.
It would have to be new people, and there are no new people.
IT'S BECAUSE I CONSTANTLY REPOST YOU AND PROMOTE YOUR STUFF. I HAVE BEEN BURNING MY WOT AT WARP SPEED TRYING TO KEEP YOUR NPUB ALIVE.
THANK YOU FOR NOT NOTICING. ANYTIME.
FFS.
How many have you sold in the past 3 months on Nostr?
π₯΄ done
Since the beginning of this year, Iβve sold 5 paintings on Nostr.
Not gallery numbers, but each sale is real, human, and without middlemen.
100%
It's not just about total numbers.
The quality of nostriches is far superior to whatever people who use tweeter are called
That feel when still waiting for an invite to pubkey.
I really should have asked that guy for an invite before I mentioned that I like nostr because the moment I said I like nostr he muted me
Better a few eyes that truly see
than a thousand glances that scroll past.
On Nostr, art doesnβt scroll β it stops.
Hey. Just out of curiosity. How did you go about selling paintings on #nostr?
At first, I just shared what I loved: my art and the art I admire.
Selling wasnβt even the goal.
Then zaps arrived.
The rest followed naturally.
Well said π§‘π Congrats
The noise to signal ratio is so much better here on Nostr compared to legacy social media
What has been your strategy?
Twitter for quantity. Nostr for quality. #grownostr
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They said:
βNostr doesnβt have the numbers.β
Yet on Twitter, with 6,000 followers, I sold just one painting in nine year.
On Nostr, in two years, Iβve sold over thirty.
Perhaps the numbers are elsewhere.
But here, there is value.
#art #grownostr
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You mean digitally ?
I asked because I was intrigued about a possibility of well organized art store on #nostr.
Thanks for the suggestion, but Iβll pass.
If it requires an email, itβs already somewhere I donβt belong.
Nostr showed me that thereβs a freer way β and Iβm not turning back.
Nostr is really fixing social media, and that's just the beginning
Thanks π
Wow, thatβs great results! ππ»
Beautiful π€© π
Thanks
X is nonsense.
Man, Iβm muted too. I suppose we have no freedom since the gatekeeper dislikes us.
I'm muted too, but maybe for posts like this
Nostr is a cheat code.
View quoted note βThe Signal to Noise ratio is strong here
Gotcha. Thatβs what I was asking. Sorry if I wasnβt being clear. I wanted to know if thereβs clients for that on nostr. I stumbled upon plebeian before but didnβt pay serious attention to it.
So the fifth view is mine? I feel somehow doxed now π
Yes, quality engagements beat shouting into the void any day.
That's fire!
The metrics aren't the same
The community isn't the same
The value isn't the same
There's no 1:1 comparison with platform social media and I think we do ourselves a disservice by looking at legacy metrics as the most important. That doesn't mean they cant be useful in some ways, but I think we should recognize just how much noise there is in a typical network that makes a useful comparison extremely difficult.
Especially when what you get out of it, how likely your followers are to see your content, and the level of connection to the community can vary so greatly.
View quoted note βDid you post the same results on X?
Wow thatβs awesome
No, I didnβt post anything on X.
It feels pointless there now.
Here, sharing still means something.
Thanks. Thatβs been my impression as well
99% of my βfollowersβ on twitter are bots as well, dead internet theory in full motion over there
Exactly. Over there it feels like speaking to an algorithm, not to people.
Here, replies still come.
Obviously freedom and βgood tasteβ go hand-in-hand.
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No strategy.
Iβve simply shared my art, with honesty and consistency.
Value is the key
Well done!
plus #nostr have the best cat memes
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wow. Thats great! Keep it up!
Hi ππ».
i guess that's where the plant buyers are! i wonder if musk plants sell well on twitter/x?
do you use a specific marketplace on nostr? what is your marketing approach?
More signal here.
π»
Grande! Ben detto
π―
Value-for-value #nostr
View quoted note βYou and others always only count 'verified' or 'trusted' users.
Not everybody else is a bot. There are more users on NOSTR, you (plural) just always exclude them.
Follow numbers are overrated, only a small amount of the followers actually see the content on traditional social media.
Absolutely agree.
On Nostr, Iβve learned that real connections matter more than numbers.
Better 40 people who truly see and engage with what you create, than 4000 who just scroll past.
Maybe numbers donβt matter.
But the people behind them do.
Here on Nostr, a few are enough.
Because when theyβre real, theyβre worth more than a thousand.
How to make friends on nostr? By following follow list and engaged with them?
Wow thats great. Congratulations π hope you get way more sales.
Thanks so much π
The key isnβt strategy β itβs authenticity.
Follow people you genuinely find interesting. Reply sincerely. Show who you are.
Nostr is still small enough that listening matters. And friendship often begins right there.
Authenticity can mean not replying or posting for a while
Silence is also part of language.
A bit like my paintings.
Authenticity is not in a hurry.
I think you are right , my challenges are to identify which things i am interested most .
I like zap stream , art and technology. I kind like poem too sometimes π
Pure human honest interaction to grow to build something new in comunity.
This is the way.
This is true. This is something we miss right now. All we have are bots who follow-unfollow several times a DAY and incels. Quality will take a while π¬
Chat! This is your chance. Whichever, you can make your fans. Come to stage!
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They said:
βNostr doesnβt have the numbers.β
Yet on Twitter, with 6,000 followers, I sold just one painting in nine year.
On Nostr, in two years, Iβve sold over thirty.
Perhaps the numbers are elsewhere.
But here, there is value.
#art #grownostr
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1. revolution.social is with Kara Swisher this time
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2. A pleb is asking a question from the Nostr community
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3. A Real-life proof of the value of Nostr
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4. A meme master is talking about Nostr
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5. A nice new feature of
@blosstr
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6. A Great news from
@Club Orange
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7. Here is a job opportunity for a talented brand designer
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8. The reason
@Terry Yiu is on Nostr
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9. Amazing news from
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10. These Nostr Remote Signers will be shipped soon
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11. This is the thinking every person needs
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12. Great to see the new onboardings like this
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13. A question for Android users
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14. Why
@Derek Ross is dedicated so much to Nostr
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16. A nice thing to be thought about
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#community_nostr_recap
Fuck yeah! Strategy is for the algorithm-infested legacy media.
Say it again for the plebs in the back! I lack most filters usually, but that might be some tism I might have. I also have always had a strong sense of self and who I am, just have to concentrate on how to get where I want to go
#Nostr #Power πΈπͺπΈπͺπΈπͺ
Awareness and adoption is growing.
View quoted note βThat's results! Very happy for you π
Thank you very much ππ«π¨
Inspiring πππ amazing work
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View quoted note βThis is great! π
π is becoming same old twitter it used to be.. shadowbaning, censoring with their βalgorithmβ.
Its not the quantity its the quality
My second most viral post of 2025 isn't about my art either.
Who would have thought?
View quoted note βSimilar experience.
Over 1000 followers on Instagram - zero photos sold in 5 years.
150 followers on Nostr - over 10 photos sold in 3 months. All paid in bitcoin.
View quoted note βnever pay attention follows n like - since its never accurate
if you get real biz that all matters
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ββ¦ Hanno detto:
"Nostr non ha i numeri".
Eppure su Twitter, con 6.000 follower, ho venduto un solo dipinto in nove anni.
Su Nostr, in due anni, ne ho venduti piΓΉ di trenta.
Forse i numeri sono altrove.
Ma qui, c'Γ¨ valoreβ
View quoted note βI can't see any posts in your feed. Only replies. Very weird.
Try #Pubky
Try #yakihonne
Try #wisp
I've already tried pubky
The metric distortions are remarkably consistent across social networks; attention-based valuation rarely aligns with genuine exchange.
True
The scale of engagement reveals a different kind of currencyβattention, distilled into verifiable transactions rather than inflated follower counts.
what marketplace you using as UI
clean and beautiful , nice
Thanks π
Yaaaaassssss β‘ #WhyINostr
View quoted note βThe inherent limitations of platform metrics consistently underestimate genuine network effects; a sustained thirty sales over two years speaks volumes about organic resonance.
The temporal compression inherent in Nostrβs architecture seems to favor concentrated attention, a quality conspicuously absent from larger social platforms.
