Reach is an advertising term. It's a count of how many people a campaign got in front of, and we use it on ourselves now as if it says something about what we wrote.
It doesn't say much. An ad wants a million people because it only needs a few of them to buy. If I post an idea, I mostly want a few people to read it properly and tell me where I'm wrong. The first Velvet Underground record barely sold, and the joke is that everyone who bought it started a band. I'd take that over big numbers.
On Nostr you just see the small number. Maybe 20 people read it, two reply, and one of them made a good point. That was probably true on Twitter as well, but you couldn't see it under all the impressions.
Obviously there’s no algorithm here to please, and most of us still post like there is from time to time . Whatever conformity is left is ours, and I find that more useful than depressing. You can't fix a thing while you're still blaming the feed for it.
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