It’s not the lack of an algorithm. It’s just early. Keypair based identities are incomprehensible to 95% of the population and 80% probably don’t even know what censorship resistant means.

It’s easy to forget that Dorsey singlehandedly made nostr relevant 8 months ago (and it would lose significant relevance if he were to leave). All the bitcoin influencoors/companies pretending they were bullish on nostr before Jack arrived are grifting (this behavior killed a few of my personal Bitcoin heroes cause I watched it in real time).

The lack of an algorithm suggests a lack of maturity and makes nostr less usable generally, but it isn’t what’s keeping influencers away. It’s just not worth migrating their audiences yet.

When you don’t have an algorithm, the people who post the most get the most views. Influencers post a lot and would easily benefit from that on nostr.

I think its more that there are no ads, if there are ads regardless of an algo then there is money flowing into the feed and those that can keep users on the platform to serve them ads get rewarded directly or indirectly

Like it or not but the native ad model forms the basis for the ecosystem and then you get the secondary attention market where influencers play in, advertisers get to figure out how much it costs to reach a user via the native ad auction and then they can look at the CPMs and CPCs from influencers and try to mix and match their ad budget to get the most users

No one is paying them to post there.

Networks take time to grow. No one gave a shit about twitch when it first launched. Shoot I remember YouTube first coming out as time goes on and people realize the value they will come. If nostr doesn’t bring value it will forever be niche

I don't know. There's an incentive to generate content here, albeit in small amounts currently. Seems to me that incentives will ultimately lure content, i.e., attract "influencers" (I so dislike that term). This especially as the space builds out and grows. We soon. Wen nostr influencers?

Also, influencers can't block people on Nostr. And that's scary to them.

Cultural relevance is the safe assumption. Right now Nostr only has community relevance.

Imo the reason is because its decentralized. Its not a single hill you climb to become the king for the day. There is no clearly defined goal or metrics or space to compete on/for and thus its unattractive to "influencers".

Good. Keep him and others away. A true peer to peer social media network with actual discussion...bummer. I really wish I was pandered to and sold a bunch of garbage by "influencers" in nostr /s.

Seems like a positive, nostr doesn't need to "get huge", it just needs to be there for those that want it, and who cares if "influencers" cant grow their audiences because of a lack of an algo. Wanting nostr to be Twitter or Instagram or whatever is missing the point.