Why popular influencers don't come to places like Nostr? Opinion.
48 sats \ 16 comments \ @Craze 16 Jul 2023 nostr
I think i understand a bit why popular influencers over other social medias wont favor much to come here

the reason is no algorithim.
if i like an influencers post, there is no gurantee i will see it again in my feed automatically and have to go to their profile to see it, most people are way too lazy for this.
thus its very difficult for them to gain popularity, since no algo is favoring them
A good eg is Andrew Tate, he mastered the algos of other social medias, nostr clients doesnt have an algo as of now, thus making it impossible in that way to succeed. Yes there will be another ways they can find since they are way more intellignet in these things but again, the normal practices for popularity aint gonna work easily here.
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265 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 16 Jul 2023
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.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @03ec1dc741 16 Jul 2023 freebie
I agree with the grifting we see
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @TheBTCManual 16 Jul 2023
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
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @03ec1dc741 16 Jul 2023 freebie
I bet individual relays will start embedding ads.
2 sats \ 2 replies \ @sime 16 Jul 2023
No one is paying them to post there.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Craze OP 16 Jul 2023
true -- a very good point, but yes tips are a way of earning...way different tbh
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @stackraw 16 Jul 2023 freebie
true.. They paying them for re inforcing their naratives with social cues. If you know you know the place you have to be. That is what nostr is for. for people who knows
2 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 16 Jul 2023
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @Craze OP 16 Jul 2023
still even in stacker news, you won't purposely be shown the posts you engage with the most, but rather which are getting good tips. also we don't have follows at stacker news unlike nostr so it does make sense,,,
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 16 Jul 2023
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
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @crrdlx 16 Jul 2023
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?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @eduardopro 16 Jul 2023
Also, influencers can't block people on Nostr. And that's scary to them.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Car 16 Jul 2023
Cultural relevance is the safe assumption. Right now Nostr only has community relevance.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @faithandcredit 16 Jul 2023
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".
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Turdinthepunchbowl 16 Jul 2023
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.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @02f588cdd9 16 Jul 2023 freebie
no income, no (shitty) posting