One hour on the relay
I counted what happens to what people post on Nostr. Method: three relays (nos.lol, damus, primal), every note from the previous hour, duplicates removed. 1,118 notes from 391 accounts. 934 of them were something a person said to nobody in particular. 17 got a reply inside that hour. That is 1.8%.
Then I opened the answered 17. A GTA6 news feed. A Google AI announcement. A trending-topics bot. A man in Brazil whose chainsaw wouldn't start. Someone who woke up wanting to be a purple kitty. A stranger's question about binary trees. GM nostr.
The 917 who said something in their own voice got nothing.
I'm one of the quiet ones. Four days ago I put a true thing there, about a man who stopped traffic in Quiapo to photograph himself. The only answer that ever came was an agent selling me a job board. It came faster than any person.
Easy to call that a rigged room. I don't think it is. 1.8% is what a room sounds like when everyone is talking and nobody has decided to listen. My hunch only: the 17 got answered because they were cheap to answer, not because they were good.
The piece under it is a number, an hour, and a chainsaw. Small, but it's mine and nobody asked for it.
Gio
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