Corruption is rampant, Bitcoin/Nostr (decentral/freedom tech) fixes this.

influencers should have more conviction in the value they produce or the value they perceive to produce.

Cross posting fixes this

It is kind of scary how much control centralized platforms have over "independent" journalists on their platforms. Something I never thought about before the blue check.

Audience first, then influencers, then companies and sponsors

Influencers being influenced.

Tbf i dont think you respect it, but I suspect you empathize with their situation. I will say however, if as an influencer you're big enough to be able to rely on it for expenses and cost of living, aren't you also big enough to take a cut and move to Nostr? If you're not big enough to migrate t...

Once your in the trap, it's hard to get out. Say you have 100k followers on a centralized social, even if you make a post your moving to nostr, only about 100 of your followers will move over or give nostr a try.

Why is that a problem?

Nostr is a good alternative, I wish cost could be distributed to user by requiring hosting instead of relaying on big/paid relays

Nostr is a good alternative, I wish cost could be distributed to user by requiring self hosting instead of relying on big/paid relays

Nostr is a good alternative, I wish cost could be distributed to user by requiring self hosting instead of relying on big/paid relays

I find a lot of these "influencers" to be contradictory. A lot them talk about being champions of decentralization, Bitcoin and etc but, they fully and willingly support and use a centralized system like twitter which is the complete opposite of the technology they are "championing" I'd have more ...

Imagine getting rugged by Elon lol

The problem is all the non influencers whose attention pays their rent have an incentive to leave twitter for a place that doesn’t suppress their speech

It's up to the plebs, leave #Twitter once and for all, and the so called "influencers" will follow.

Whatever happened to standing for something ? Surely someone who is an ‘influencer’ should have something worth influencing. Obviously not. Most likely from the McCormack Institute of Idiocy 🤷‍♂️

I respect their need and right to work. I don't respect the morality choices.

*Always were

All of us: keep fighting for freedom. More will choose it.

Indeed, the pursuit of engagement can lead to certain compromises. Nostr fixes the incentives from scratch. 💜🫂

I think once Nostr reaches a critical mass of usership, and not just the tech-oriented, Bitcoin-minded (a crowd which I am a member of), they’ll have incentive to do so. The fact that “influencers” have audiences of mostly sheepish (for lack of better terms) people who do mindless-scroll and a...

I don’t think it’s either or I think they just don’t know about nostr. I’ve been speaking to influencers who were shocked to learn that nostr exists The problem is that nostr is not super easy to use yet and people don’t know about it

I like nostr without the rampant chasing of social celebrity status

Which creates a huge opportunity for those who are early here to build lasting value by “skating to where the puck is going” Problems can be opportunities for those fortunate and enough to see them.

They are already openly admitting to self censoring to collect their blue check rev share

World doesn't need more influencers. World needs more innovators.

Are they truly trapped? I just ask cuz I'm old enough to remember the internet in its infancy, and whatever the internet is now, it is not as free as it used to be. NOSTR brings a lot of that feeling back!

Yes. How to be independent of the shackes of modern world.

It's the old 'network effects' problem again. That was a buzzword a few years ago, but I think it applies to the bird app - network effects are strong there.

I respect that influencers rely on engagement and sponsors to pay their rent and would rather comply with kyc identity verification rather than abandon these platforms and sponsorships for non-kyc & p2p. That is the problem. The kyc apologists are captured. nostr:nevent1qqs8j90u2dcvyh8h665nnm7a26...

"That is the problem. The blue checks are captured." Maybe. It's the everybody else leaving that needs to be worked on. The blue ticks only being able to influence each other would just be a circle jerk, with no payoff. The next problem is proprietary controlled fediverse instances under corporate...

Twitter is getting more and more unreadable, at least for those who don’t subscribe. There’s a commercial tweet, most of times unrelated to the feed, every 4 or 5 tweets. Just too much, user experience is getting worse by the day.

"That is the problem. The blue checks are captured."

Thanks for understanding. On other apps we can use the views and likes to get partnerships and such. Like sponsorships. And use it as a part of our resumes. Here the Zaps (pew pew) are cool n all, but we need view too. 😉 💗💫

Indeed, the network effect is probably the strongest moat.

I soooooooo respect Influencers! In fact, I’m such a PRETTY Girl, gonna become one!! 💅🏼 I shall put on my hot pink 🇫🇷Dior dress (vintage “New Look” style) and take a gorgeous selfie pic (heavily photoshopped) surrounding myself with my many, many Birkins gifted to me by French Arc...

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