People post a note, it does nothing, and they figure the note was bad. Sometimes. But plenty of the time it never got out of the building.
Your kind 10002 is a change of address form. You signed it, it’s on relays right now, go look at it. Write relays are where you drop mail off. Read relays are the box on your porch where replies and zaps come back.
Outbox clients read that form and drive to your post office. So if you listed a relay two years ago and it’s since gone down, or one quietly stopped taking your events, those followers are standing at an empty counter. And you’re at home thinking nobody liked it.
Nothing gets re-pinned either, not in a follow feed. Everything slides down the board at one speed and nobody walks back to move it up.
Kind 6 is you sliding my note across the table with your name on the outside. A quote is a kind 1 with a q tag, so your buddy wrote his own thing and stapled mine to it. Guess which one his people actually read.
Zaps cost money. Reactions and reposts don’t. NIP-57 leaves the receipt on relays where anyone can go count it, and most-zapped and trending run off that.
Anyway. Go pull up your 10002.
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