They said:
“Nostr doesn’t have the numbers.”
Yet on Twitter, with 6,000 followers, I sold just one painting in nine year.
On Nostr, in two years, I’ve sold over thirty.
Perhaps the numbers are elsewhere.
But here, there is value.
#art #grownostr
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The users here are built different.
Yes, we’re built different.
Less noise, more vision.
I’ve been telling all my friends. 40 people who truly VALUE your work, enough to pay sats and interact with you directly, is worth 4,000 or more who get a low bitrate version of it that hardly means shit, and that gives the middleman far too much.
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You have over 40k followers, lots of people with big npubs actively promote your posts and you're on the follow-recommendation/onboarding lists.
Hardly any one on here has a similar experience and nothing they can do will ever change that. It's the hopelessness, that causes them to leave. They can't see their follower numbers steadily increase with effort and interaction.
I've been hovering around 6k, for over a year, and most of those npubs are dormant or bots. My notes get 5 views, sometimes, and 4 of those are my alts. 😂
I understand the frustration.
But I didn't plant seeds for numbers — I planted to remain.
Nostr gave me little at first, but it never pretended.
Maybe that’s what makes it rare.
You were just really early and made some friends in high places. The newcomers can't be early and they have no friends.
There needs to be some other mechanism for growing your follows, other than nepotism and Just Be Me.
Maybe being "early" helps.
But staying matters more.
Over time, presence becomes resonance.
Resonance _with whom_ ?
Who is being onboarded? All of the 14372 people who are here and active, have already had the opportunity to find me and follow me, and most didn't do it and won't do it.
It would have to be new people, and there are no new people.
So the fifth view is mine? I feel somehow doxed now 😂
Hi 👋🏻.
How about pubky 🤣
I’m there.
Anywhere that respects art and silence
is already home.
That feel when still waiting for an invite to pubkey.
I really should have asked that guy for an invite before I mentioned that I like nostr because the moment I said I like nostr he muted me
Man, I’m muted too. I suppose we have no freedom since the gatekeeper dislikes us.
I'm muted too, but maybe for posts like this 
high risk bitcoiner ⚡
Art is high risk too.
Especially the true kind.
The numbers on twitter are essentially fake. The Indian botnets combined with Twitter's bizarre "Freedom of speech but not freedom of reach" censorship algorithms means very few actual humans see any non-twitter-promoted post.
Big numbers, little substance.
I’d rather have twenty real eyes
than a thousand silent shapes.
That’s awesome. You are a very good painter ser
Thanks 🙏
@corndalorian Brother, this is for you. Read this and smile till Monday.
Beautiful 🤩 🚀
How many have you sold in the past 3 months on Nostr?
Since the beginning of this year, I’ve sold 5 paintings on Nostr.
Not gallery numbers, but each sale is real, human, and without middlemen.
100%
It's not just about total numbers.
The quality of nostriches is far superior to whatever people who use tweeter are called
Better a few eyes that truly see
than a thousand glances that scroll past.
On Nostr, art doesn’t scroll — it stops.
Well said 🧡👏 Congrats
Hey. Just out of curiosity. How did you go about selling paintings on #nostr?
At first, I just shared what I loved: my art and the art I admire.
Selling wasn’t even the goal.
Then zaps arrived.
The rest followed naturally.
You mean digitally ?
I asked because I was intrigued about a possibility of well organized art store on #nostr.
I mean real art, like this:
And this:
Isolabellart
Original oil paintings
Isolabellart
Isolabellart
Original oil paintings
Gotcha. That’s what I was asking. Sorry if I wasn’t being clear. I wanted to know if there’s clients for that on nostr. I stumbled upon plebeian before but didn’t pay serious attention to it.
The noise to signal ratio is so much better here on Nostr compared to legacy social media
What has been your strategy?
No strategy.
I’ve simply shared my art, with honesty and consistency.
Quality >> quantity
Twitter for quantity. Nostr for quality. #grownostr
They said:
“Nostr doesn’t have the numbers.”
Yet on Twitter, with 6,000 followers, I sold just one painting in nine year.
On Nostr, in two years, I’ve sold over thirty.
Perhaps the numbers are elsewhere.
But here, there is value.
#art #grownostr
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They said: “Nostr doesn’t have the numbers.”
And yet this note reached more hearts than years spent on other platforms.
Thank you to everyone who saw the value, not just the number. 🙏
This is what keeps me painting.
This is what keeps me here.
#art #nostr #grownostr
They said:
“Nostr doesn’t have the numbers.”
Yet on Twitter, with 6,000 followers, I sold just one painting in nine year.
On Nostr, in two years, I’ve sold over thirty.
Perhaps the numbers are elsewhere.
But here, there is value.
#art #grownostr
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Quality over quantity! When you come to think of it that's basically the value prop of NOSTR.
Join subreply.com too.
Thanks for the suggestion, but I’ll pass.
If it requires an email, it’s already somewhere I don’t belong.
Nostr showed me that there’s a freer way — and I’m not turning back.
thank you, i just joined. hope i find real value and opportunities and connections
Thank you.
Well,maybe...you're not a good painter..
Nostr is really fixing social media, and that's just the beginning
While the person already knew me, Nostr facilitated actually getting some side work. #grownostr
Thanks for the tip Jack, I gotta get back to work
Wow, that‘s great results! 👍🏻
Thanks
Here there are more real people too, mainstream SM are full of bots and fake accounts that are even automated. Something like that doesn't make sense in Nostr since there is no algorithm in the first place.
You saying there is less incentives for bots on nostr?
I do think so, yeah
Well that's good ..
I'm all for Nostr
X is nonsense.
Nostr is a cheat code.
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The Signal to Noise ratio is strong here
Great work mate. Keep it up
That's fire!
The metrics aren't the same
The community isn't the same
The value isn't the same
There's no 1:1 comparison with platform social media and I think we do ourselves a disservice by looking at legacy metrics as the most important. That doesn't mean they cant be useful in some ways, but I think we should recognize just how much noise there is in a typical network that makes a useful comparison extremely difficult.
Especially when what you get out of it, how likely your followers are to see your content, and the level of connection to the community can vary so greatly.
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Did you post the same results on X?
No, I didn’t post anything on X.
It feels pointless there now.
Here, sharing still means something.
Thanks. That’s been my impression as well
Wow that’s awesome
99% of my “followers” on twitter are bots as well, dead internet theory in full motion over there
Exactly. Over there it feels like speaking to an algorithm, not to people.
Here, replies still come.
Obviously freedom and ‘good taste’ go hand-in-hand.
🫳
🎤
Value is the key
Well done!
Thanks
plus #nostr have the best cat memes
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wow. Thats great! Keep it up!
i guess that's where the plant buyers are! i wonder if musk plants sell well on twitter/x?
do you use a specific marketplace on nostr? what is your marketing approach?
More signal here.
🌻
Grande! Ben detto
Hi! That's really inspiring. I'm new here and experimenting with Bitcoin faucets and microtasks to earn a few sats. If anyone wants to support my learning journey, my BTC address is 1zwkdaKbmGitKiP88oY8S91RdFWbJ91XU. Either way, happy to connect and learn more about Nostr!
Okay
Well put.
Value-for-value #nostr
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Perhaps the numbers don't matter but the people behind them do?
Maybe numbers don’t matter.
But the people behind them do.
Here on Nostr, a few are enough.
Because when they’re real, they’re worth more than a thousand.
That's what I was saying.
Follow numbers are overrated, only a small amount of the followers actually see the content on traditional social media.
Absolutely agree.
On Nostr, I’ve learned that real connections matter more than numbers.
Better 40 people who truly see and engage with what you create, than 4000 who just scroll past.
How to make friends on nostr? By following follow list and engaged with them?
The key isn’t strategy — it’s authenticity.
Follow people you genuinely find interesting. Reply sincerely. Show who you are.
Nostr is still small enough that listening matters. And friendship often begins right there.
Authenticity can mean not replying or posting for a while
Silence is also part of language.
A bit like my paintings.
Authenticity is not in a hurry.
I think you are right , my challenges are to identify which things i am interested most .
I like zap stream , art and technology. I kind like poem too sometimes 😊
Pure human honest interaction to grow to build something new in comunity.
Sounds good. Seems pretty good here so far.
This is the way.
This is true. This is something we miss right now. All we have are bots who follow-unfollow several times a DAY and incels. Quality will take a while 😬
I always manage to learn more when I listen. Seems like a good idea given I already know what I think.
Authenticity is also the best approach so we attract our tribe. Be Well. 🙏🙂
Fuck yeah! Strategy is for the algorithm-infested legacy media.
Say it again for the plebs in the back! I lack most filters usually, but that might be some tism I might have. I also have always had a strong sense of self and who I am, just have to concentrate on how to get where I want to go
Godo. 🫂💜🥹
Wow thats great. Congratulations 🎊 hope you get way more sales.
Thanks so much 🙏
Chat! This is your chance. Whichever, you can make your fans. Come to stage!
They said:
“Nostr doesn’t have the numbers.”
Yet on Twitter, with 6,000 followers, I sold just one painting in nine year.
On Nostr, in two years, I’ve sold over thirty.
Perhaps the numbers are elsewhere.
But here, there is value.
#art #grownostr
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decentralised tech is winning
#Nostr #Power 🔸💪🔸💪🔸💪
Awareness and adoption is growing.
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That's results! Very happy for you 🙂
Thank you very much 🙏🫂🎨
Inspiring 🙌🙌🙌 amazing work
@🟠 isolabellart
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This is great! 👍
𝕏 is becoming same old twitter it used to be.. shadowbaning, censoring with their “algorithm”.
Its not the quantity its the quality
My second most viral post of 2025 isn't about my art either.
Who would have thought?
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Similar experience.
Over 1000 followers on Instagram - zero photos sold in 5 years.
150 followers on Nostr - over 10 photos sold in 3 months. All paid in bitcoin.
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Some might disagree.
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