Nostr notes by ⁂ L. Rhodes

"Engagement" is sort of a BS metric, but people do guage ...

2026-09-01T17:31:27Z

"Engagement" is sort of a BS metric, but people do guage the sociability of social media by how much the network engages with them. So if you want to build a community around some hobby or interest, boost, like and reply liberally when people post about it. That makes the interest more visible to others, and makes the person posting feel like the network is paying attention to what they have to say. (Which it is!)

I think it's only semantic if you're more interested in ...

2026-05-21T18:17:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…7tuh
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I think it's only semantic if you're more interested in the output than in the process and the negative externalities it entails. Avoiding high compute processes at hyperscale datacenters is part of my interest in avoiding AI. If searching on Kagi prompts Google to run such processes, then that's something I'd want to know beforehand.