Post by @punkess • Hey
gm gm ☀️
we‘ve seen several trends on @lensprotocol like projects getting a lot of attention for a few days to weeks.
What do you think, does it take to
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- Very interesting - About 5-6 months ago I remember writing a comment somewhere that in reality, my engagement is solely with 11-12 lens users. Perhaps, the number has slightly increased to 15-16 now.
From my perspective, I guess it depends on how one defines attention/relevance?
The Attention/Staying relevant economy is imho - draining, for the creator and perhaps in some ways for the audience as well.
So what works (long term/forever) is keep doing your thing until you find YOUR audience. Any other kind of attention/relevance is short lived - which, btw is totally fine and nothing wrong with it, if that's the goal of the creator/audience.
- you have to be super consistent, provide valuable/interesting content, and interact with as many accounts as possible. i have been struggling to keep up a bit lately tbh
- Being active and interacting with large/trending accounts ✊
The type of art/photography/content you post matters
- Gm @punkess.lens
Great topic 🔥
- Long-term perspective, constant improvements and, above all, collaborate with the community, as the Lens concept is still in development and in its early stages and has not yet faced the challenges of mass adoption, so take advantage of the possibility of dialogue 😁
- Gm ☕ it seems all the accounts you mentioned are trending on lens since I've been here (around 6 months) .
I think at least from my point of view a huge role plays consistency. The accounts you mentioned are posting every day without exception and also are among the most active 24/7 posting comments.
- "What do you think, does it take to stay relevant for more than a few weeks?"
Sustainable behaviours for the long term - both on the part of the DApp / Protocol & the Users on the platform.
DApp / Protocol - Building out features, iterating & fine tuning
Users - showing up consistently & engaging meaningfully
- I'm seeing this new Communities on Hey like g/developers, do you know how this works? Or how can we setup one for our community?
- Hello dear. I think in my case repetition is the key. Takes to average person 7 times before realising something is important. I have no idea where this will bring me but my motivation comes from being a full complete believer of Phaver and Lens succeeding.
- Gm Alice 🙌, I badly need that 'any' key 😎
4) Then, of course there are content creators(OGs) who disseminate a lot of info about the web3 and web3 social in general - @punkess.lens @ryanfox.lens @definn.lens @chriscomrie.lens @trustmebro.lens
- I think it’s all about bringing new types of onchain social experiences to Lens.
So far one of my biggest critiques is that our apps don’t do enough to differentiate themselves from the much larger web2 alternatives.
We need to focus about things that users actually want and care about that are uniquely enabled through Lens like ownership, monetization, and the sandbox like experience lens opens up around established primitive like follow, mirror and open actions.
Let’s start building new social economic models for creators, fans, communities, friends and everything in between 🌱
- Gm Gm
- well, @cavernaeremita.lens and @mazemari.lens have mentioned it already: consistency is key.
we have seen e.g. photographers posting consistently. the more successful ones (hm, in what sense? let's say followers) like @chaoticmonk.lens are engaging regularly with the community. they are not just dropping their work here but post non-creator stuff, comment on other people's posts,... -> "normal" behaviour.
also @vinod is right. you are the best example.
you can also pivot in some way like @ryanfox.lens has done (intentionally or not), from photographer to big brain posts to podcaster (I love everything Ryan is posting).
what doesn't work in the long term: incentives. this might be strange as Lens provides all the tools to do exactly this.
reg. personal brands: I'm not sure in the long term (2 years+). honestly, posts and memes become repetitive already.
reg. general purpose apps: in the short term there isn't any room for more apps of this kind, imho. Hey (Lenster) succeeded as the only app for quite some time and the only desktop app for a very long time. Phaver succeeded because it started building without the need for a Lens account, attracting countless users hoping for a handle. Orb was - apart from Phaver - the first real mobile app. but they also pivoted from a business approach (LinkedIn?) to a more successful community approach. also they are constantly innovating (-> consistency). the same applies to Buttrfly but it has stayed niche so far attracting more power users, I think.
my bet: more niche apps that might have connections to dapps outside of the Lens ecosystem can gain traction (admittedly, I don't know how this could work but Lens v2 seems to built in that direction).
- "Develioping an app for users is not hard"
Meanwhile developing for users: