Ever since I stopped paying for X my engagements are down 90%. X is holding my audience hostage to extort me if I want to reach them.
Such is the inevitable result of closed platforms.
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That's insane though 😒
That’s a crazy dip! Had no idea it would be that big of a difference
Pay to play
I read this post and there's nothing you can do to stop me.
Freedom of speech that comes at a price...ha-ha)...
This entire statement is hilarious.
Imagine thinking you weren't paying for "engagement"
Protocols > Platforms
there's a lot of statistics that show that society has gone to hell since the attention funnels got wide adoption.
i think referring them to as "audience" is a bit dehumanizing too. how about peers?
the west will NEVER have a superapp like WeChat
Time to drop the security blanket and go full nostr?
Might as well delete your account and go nostr only.
Algo que aprendí en NOSTR es que el ruido de una supuesta audiencia desaparece, me obliga a crear contenido de calidad y no solo contenido "de relleno". De hecho, como persona que crea contenido, aborrezco ese término, pues es como llenar un espacio solo por hacerlo, no por competir.
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Does this mean you paid for engagement?
I think the best strategy is to try to move x% of your followers to Nostr.
Or….. your “audience” on X was never real
Same happens on LinkedIn if you don’t verify your identity then 60% less engagement. They frame it positively though that you get 60% more as a reward. Either way I stopped posting there altogether and moved my time to Nostr 💯 %
Engagement is such a broken metric anyway.
Leave X and never look back. You'll feel much better. I'm sure @ODELL will confirm :)
X is ghey.
You don’t really own an audience on a rented platform. You’re basically farming on digital feudal land and the landlord suddenly decided sunlight is now a premium feature.
Sux! You can't even tell your audience to follow you on nostr.
It was never “your” audience at all then
Have you heard of The Internet? You don’t get a blue check but you can have fun.
the same as going like to a Disco, you where going to have fun inside and connect with people wanting to dance. But less fun
Not with that attitude, we won't!
It is easier to monetize cattle than free men
ODELL
Blue Check Manifesto
The blue check is the first step in Elon's plan to bring the chinese social credit score system to the west. If you cannot resist the temptation of...
I like your spirit
Centralized
LinkedIn is insufferable!
what’s stopping you from leaving your Noster link on your Twitter and no longer using Twitter at all?
Do you miss it ?
#nostronly
Still had paid but got shadowbanned because I said somethings that some people we're ready to accept. So even worse, paid and still rekt. The era of enshittification is real, full pivot to Nostr in the works.
His audience would definitely be smaller if he did that
Sounds nice from a principles perspective. Blog or create media professionally as a major source of income and you’ll quickly learn Nostr-only is not feasible.
So many armchair digital blogging/writing biz consultants in the replies think it’s feasible to be Nostr-only 🤣
WAKE UP. Nostr network effects are comparably garbage.
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We cannot say that every platform will end up like this, but it is true that paid subscriptions are given priority.
“Had to be posted on Nostr. “
Ginsberg
Is something similar possible on this platform too?
Orrrr they just want your money 😂
Nostr is where its at
Nostr is not a platform, therefore that cannot happen here. The app/website you’re using right now is simply an interface to the Nostr protocol, which is decentralized.
🧡💜🐇
No way! Everyone here on Nostr had no idea!
This is Nostr, Jimmy. You are preaching to the converted. What did you think this is, Twitter? 🤣
BTW, it is not "your" audience on X. It is a group of people who mostly watch whatever Elon tells you and them to watch. They are not yours. They are Elon's bitches. You can pay the pimp to have them stroke your ego. But dont complain to us when you stop paying and they stop pleasuring you.
Nostr only
… and Nostr is way more fun when it comes to programmatic agentic AI.
The other day I asked Claude Code and Gemini CLI to read the NIPs and build a Python agent that could read, reply, and post on my behalf.
Five minutes later, I had a fully operational Nostr AI agent running.
Haven’t deployed it yet because I’m still training small LLMs to mimic my writing style.
lol that's the dream nobody actually gets though. what kind of free money were you thinking?
I see
I never saw anything from you on X. Mainly since I haven't been on Twitter since 2008
Thank you. I mostly write about traditional logic, so quality matters more to me than follower counts. However, I worry about what happens if relays go down or become highly centralized. If only a few relays end up running the network, I fear I might have to pay just to keep my data from being deleted. And if something happens to me down the road, all the legacy I left behind could just vanish. Is there a permanent solution for data longevity here?
Great questions. I’m not an expert but I think there are lots of relays that all replicate, and most clients give you an option to chose if you want to change the defaults. So if people notice a relay is censoring their reputation and usage should tank in theory. Nostr is still young, but I haven’t heard of any censorship issues here and I follow lots of freedom of speech champions that have been censored elsewhere. This is our biggest weapon here, being uncensorable.
Account legacy is about your nsec management. There must be good resources on this but I’m unfamiliar, I’m sure you’ll figure it out :)
Thank you for this great conversation. It’s 11:42 PM here in Turkey, and the day is coming to an end. I’m really happy to wrap up my day with a chat like this. It has been incredibly useful for me, and I hope it helps others too. Thanks again.
*centralized platforms
It’s not just closed, you are literally trusting a company (run by a billionaire) with your time, energy and algorithm. It’s feeding the very system you are trying to fix with bitcoin. Those platforms have zero value. It’s a zero sum game.
They gotta make their money somehow. 😂
İyi geceler 🌙
That’s inspiring. I’d prefer to be wrong if others have found the same.
The closed platform hostage dynamic is exactly why Nostr matters — not as a feature but as architecture. On Bitcoin: the protocol answers Sauron's logic. On Nostr: it answers X's. The move outside the framework is always structural, not rhetorical.
Stopping it was the good decision. Starving the beast is trivial.
awww.. less free money for doing nothing? unacceptable!
there is no free money
Only a retard would pay money for views on twitter.
Absolutely fucking retarded.
80+% of twitter users are bots.
You're paying them for bot engagement.
Nostr, baby, Nostr
I would've paid, I use the platform a lot, but there was no option to use Lightning to pay anonymously.
Ever wonder why Elon is so rich? He knows how to extract maximum value from a product. X is pay to play now.
Hopefully that means we see more of you here.
I never see what I want to on Twitter anyway.
X under Elon Musk is a hoax and CIA bullshit, just like every other mainstream social media platform. I deleted all of this shit.
Same experience here; stopt paying and I got like 5 likes at best, and 1/10th of the views...
yeah and we got an open alternative
i wonder what happens to nostr when it really takes off
right now its just 30k active users or something
Only #nostr 🔥💪🇮🇹
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2. Warsaw is ready for the best Bitcoin cultural event in the world 😍
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3. Nature is the way to cure your mind ❤️
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4. This proves centralized social platforms are not for us 🤮
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6. Good news from Umbrel 👇🏻
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7. This game gonna be insane 🔥
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8. This is true. Nostr needs more promo 👇🏻
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9. She is gonna leave the centralization 👏🏻
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10. Is it like this really? 🤔
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11. A precious life lesson from a popular nostrich 👇🏻
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