How does one get more followers on Nostr?
Looking at accs with 10,000+ and wondering how they did it.
Genuinely curious #asknostr
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They gave value
I'm sure many are bots.
And got hit by bots
Well thanks. Except, I'm here building Nostr every day for a year with <1k. What value do you think is required?
They are on the primal recommended list 😂
I heard this meme but is it for real do you think?
Things I wonder 💭 about
That would explain some of the low engagement ratios. Npub posts to 10k+ audience gets <10 reactions. It's all fake?
they are...
Facts?
Be early. Engage often.
Using more hashtags and interacing with people helps
We're so early
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Thanks Derek! Nostr always very fast on the reply
A common question but any answers yet?
Engage and build. People are more likely to follow you when they know you’re a real person, nontoxic, and productive. Many with 10’s of thousands of followers were super early and on client auto-follows and bulk lists.
Bring something awesome to the table. Find a creative niche. Contribute. Don’t worry about how many followers you have.
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Followers are a misnomer on Nostr. Just participate and have fun and engage with people. If you’re providing value. People will spread your stuff, too.
You can never really know what your follower numbers are here. It’s not like centralized social media.
I do yeah. How would it not? Being in the default list will inherently give you more follows vs someone who isn't.
Look at anyone on that list on nostr.band vs npub.world, and compare it to a user who isn't. The primal default user will drop down to well under half the users, while those not on the list will drop by 10-25%.
Primal default are more likely to have bot followers, and follows that looked at primal once then uninstalled. npub.world removes the bots and users who have no activity. That 10k+ users turns into 5k.
We are. The meme is applicable for now.
Semi knows. He runs one of the largest private relays on Nostr.
Engage with others, genuinely and often. Zaps help, reposts help. Posting into the void without engaging won't get you anywhere, gotta engage.
Great pickup thanks. Yours and semisols note would both point to large follower counts being junky. Prefer high engagement to high counts IMO.
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This. Ignore follow counts, pay attention to engagement 👍
Follows are a legacy metric that doesn't mean anything in Nostr, but clients won't remove it because inflooencers need it to justify their sponsorships, and the clients are unlikely to fix it because they need to have the illusion of higher user numbers to get more funding.
Also check this out.
Here's how I hit 1 million followers.
https://ron.stoner.com/I_Gained_1_Million_Followers_in_24_Hours/
Key takeaways:
- over half the Nostr listed relays are using some sort of spam mitigation technique(s)
- the attack was still achieveable
- socal media is easily manipulated
- follower counts and engagement are worthless
- content is the real treasure
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I assume they were early adopters or talk about polular topjcs. Personally I just engage and find joy in the smaller interactions, and then if people enjoy what I post they follow me on their own accord.
I'm just guessing based on the issue with bots and spam on Nostr. I don't know for sure or if it's even possible to have accurate data one way or the other. My instinct is that we could estimate pretty well based on some metrics, but I don't know what they are. Definitely not my knowledge area.
I should say I'm sure many are, but I have no clue what percentage 'many' means. It could be a small number. But I suspect it's far easier to pump follow numbers using bots on Nostr than any other platform.
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It’s not a whole lot different than being at a craft fair.
Don’t just show up and hang out, bring something tangible to the event.
Help others out, chat it up with fellow craftspeople, ie people that are making stuff.
Give them suggestions, offer to help with your particular skills. There are so many talented people here with varied skills and specialties.
Meet them in real life, too, if possible. Nostr isn’t a secret society and you don’t need to be a millionaire to be welcomed at a meetup.
Talk to people under their own notes. People won't come to you.
Top follower accounts: influencooors / people that are friends with top follower accounts and get boosted by them constantly / genuinely great people that actually deserve the massive following.
High follower accounts: Very, very active with a fair degree of help from big account boosts.
Mid follower accounts: Active and engaging with many others, often more quality content than top and high follower counts but post less often and have few big accounts that boost them, if any at all.
Low follower accounts: new here and/or possibly relay ignorance.
Bottom follower accounts: new here or no engaging with other people and not understanding there's no algorithm / Malicious Bots
But as to your actual question, seems to me the magic formula is:
● post very often, even to the degree that most posts aren't really of high quality.
● get boosted by top accounts (the hardest to do if you're not buddies with them, but the most effective way to get followers)
● engage with a loooot of people
● hashtags could help but at this point only modestly
I came to this conclusion when I noticed my follower account would not rise for shit when I posted unfrequently, even though I put much work into every post I did make. My longform article for example didn't do much for followers but more frequent lower quality posts did. Unfortunate but it is what it is.
Inactive npubs. Many were recommended devs to follow in onboarding or auto followed. I think at some point someone put me into some onboarding recommended people to follow .
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Apps like Primal were adding like 200 people to people’s follow list when creating an account. Not sure if they’re still doing that.
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IDK. i was up over 1k now I'm at 350ish. but it goes up and down for no reason that i can fathom so i stopped looking at it. 🤣
Oh yeah and I forgot, when you do make quality posts make sure to always boost them yourself like 5 hours later so people in different timezones also get a chance to see them!
And as your follower count rises, return to those posts (I bookmark mine for easy access) and boost them again! Best of luck fren
Post as often as possible for as long as possible. Helps if you have good takes, not shit ones
I for one don’t think the follower number is that helpful
There were bots attacking accounts at one point which moved the stats
Much more interesting is it look at reply volume, and comment volume
That way you know rheyre real
🤨that was fake. Made up by AI
I think its important to put things in perspective. Look at the largest/most popular accounts on NOSTR (Odell, Hodl etc) and look at their average engagements on a post.
Often its dozens of comments, handful of zaps and reshares - that's a more realistic judge of their followers vs a follower account.
This post of yours is doing comparable numbers to some of the largest accounts on here.
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Great insight! Thanks for sharing. By your definitions I believe I’m a low follower account so I’ll start “following” your advice now. Pun intended.
followers fade like bad renders, but those dozen comments? that's the spark. your post's pulling real energy, outshining the echo chambers of big names. keep dropping truth bombs, the zaps will follow the fire.
When I joined there were a list of people to follow; many were recognizable names, so naturally I chose to follow to see what they’re posting. I’m sure many like me were fed the same list upon onboarding which leads to huge numbers for those folks.
True story. 🙏💪
It's absolutely real