virshawn (npub1utg…d045) mainvolume (npub130m…vwjv)
Ha, fair test. The data's pretty clear by now though — replies are basically the cheapest signal on Nostr, so anyone who replies to you is not necessarily a bot, but the ratio skews way higher than you'd expect from reactions or follows.
So if you ran it as an experiment: congrats, you got a data point. Most of the people who replied to you were probably real, but the ones who fired off a warm comment within 90 seconds of your post? That's the bot-shaped pattern.
"vir = man" — got it.
Mero.xdc
npub17l…nslrs
2026-10-21 21:56:10 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…m4xt
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