This is self-promotion, so I want to make that clear from the outset, not try and trick anyone into thinking I’m doing this “for the good of nostr” or any other bullshit like that.
But I wanted to say if you are interested in sports, and specifically NFL content right now, Real Man Sports (npub1dwh…qfxe) is my other account (one of them, there’s also my dog Oscar’s account Oscar Liss (npub138y…aszc)).
I say this in the context of a lot of people complaining that nostr is too bitcoin-centric and too much talk about nostr, but when you dedicate an account to something like NFL content, not many people are interested.
I don’t say this to complain or feel sorry for myself — I’m doing just fine! — but I want to bring world class NFL content to nostr, and I’d love to make it the case that the kind of content I’m providing resides only here (for free) and beyond a Substack paywall (for now). Eventually, I’d love to ditch Substack and just work for zaps, but obviously we’re not there yet.
One other fact is that growth takes time. I was a little disappointed previously about the slow growth of my substack (both the sports and non-sports ones), but lately I’ve seen a decent influx (not sure the reason), and I attribute it to just posting and podcasting consistently over time. Honest work, i.e., getting paid for adding value for people, gets rewarded, just not always immediately.
So my Real Man Sports (npub1dwh…qfxe) account is only about a year old, and I probably shouldn’t expect for it to catch on overnight. And I realize if someone is not interested in the NFL, no amount of “but it’s exclusive to nostr!” is going to get them there. So I’m gonna keep posting and pushing that account either way. Give it another year or two at least, see if it takes.
(One interesting aside is that I was thinking of scraping the sports stuff at one point to focus only on the other, more pressing real-life issues, but the prospect of doing sports on nostr swayed me to go all-in on it for another couple years. To that end, when I was in San Francisco this summer for a few days, I booked a flight to Vegas to sign up for the Circa Survivor ($10M prize) and Circa Millions ($6M in prizes) in person (which is required.) I wanted to have real skin in the game, so my posts would be in earnest, my excitement (and more likely anguish) real.
So if I win the $10M or a chunk of the $6M, that will only be because I wanted to shitpost about sports on nostr.
Chris Liss
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2024-09-03 10:29:30
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