Oddbean

The individual needs to take personal repsonsibility for the content they are seeing instead of relying on the app to have a magic algo to recommend. Get out there young men/women, the #nostrverse is constantly growing.

The content we see here is exactly what we asked for. That person didn't know how to choose the content to be received and blamed the platform for it. That was someone used to being served what to be consumed. Over here we sow and reap what we choose to.

Truth is ... Queer Theory is technically Queer Marxism. That's why you see them together so much. It's one of the many Marxist critical theories they push. This video explains it breifly https://odysee.com/queer-theory-is-queer-marxism#eaf8d275e7ea0dd49b5c78cbaef179eb9575bffa

I just commented about this on Rabble’s post. I think some sort of “engaging” signup/onboarding process could be useful — obvs it’s up to the clients to do this themselves, but still nostr:nevent1qqsysqd6wnj8nzfk828un9jkjgunvy33e32dh867y2dkdyls2x4d08qprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnrdakjuct4qyvhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnndp5hgen0wf3k2tn0dejszyrhwden5te0dehhxarj9ekxzmnyqyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskueqv5k4dp

I floated the idea before for new npubs to start off in an introduction relay that maybe has a tutorial bot just giving the basics including how to add new relays and how to leave the introduction relay

Fiatjaf told me to checkout bluesky feeds functionality for AlgoRelay ideas Here's what I saw as the 2nd top ranking post (This was weeks ago, this isn't a Halloween outfit) Sorry that our culture of trying to build an open and honest monetary system is so off-putting https://i.nostr.build/w2f0ECVL28oU32dR.jpg nostr:nevent1qqsg6rn4uzw6p6gfxhumxzwelh02t8gmcpsffzc0zg8alux2cjnp7pspzemhxue69uhkummnw3ex2mrfw3jhxtn0wfnj7q3qxtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsxpqqqqqqz3awe9l

In other words, you like epistemic bubbles and echo chambers. But what we need is precisely the opposite: more diversity of content, and the nostr's trending topics should be all diversity of content instead of just bitcoin.

🤣 I wonder if this is an artifact of people expecting an algorithm to to all the work? Nostr definitely has some content niches that are a lot stronger than others, but filters are pretty simple.

There is at least more substance on bluesky. I find a variety accounts dedicated to music, sports, vintage computing, and memes. Everything on nostr is largely bitcoin only. I don't give a fuck about 'stacking sats' or your garbage coffee. Nostr complains twitter, x, whatever is an echo chamber, when in reality this place is the largest circlejerk of any social media. There will only be positivity about bitcoin and bitcoin related topics because that in turn gets people to send sats in return. This diminishes any type of future creativity because there is a precedent set that bitcoin is an eternal god you must follow to be welcomed and to be able to earn pennies. There is plenty of criticism about bitcoin that should be outlined, but any room for that type of discussion, or even anything else will be ignored and as you scroll down your feed you will see more of the same e-begging for bitcoin with over 20 likes. Nostr will fail as a mainstream social networking platform UNTIL it stops making bitcoin their personality. The idea of nostr is amazing, but it gives me an absolute fucking headache hearing about bitcoin each time I open the app.

I see you're following a whole lot of Bitcoin type people. Try curating your own feed by searching for topics that interest you, and following people that talk about them. Nostr thankfully doesn't have an algorithm that assumes to know what you want to see.

saw a dude yesterday on the Fediverse talking about the great browser extension he made which will watch everything you browse, and send it back to Google so their AI can tell you if its true or not. what could go wrong?

It’s a valid point.. Onboarding on Nostr clients should have a “what are you interested in” section where you can choose hashtags to follow, and suggest top profiles in each section to follow. (Eg #artstr, #bitcoin, #runstr etc etc) The “trending” feed should be based on your selected interests.

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if you want to show that nostr really is great tech and the decentralized future of social media for everyone, and not just a circlejerk of right-wing extremism, and make people feel welcome to join, this kind of territorialism is absolutely not the way to go nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqvhpsfmr23gwhv795lgjc8uw0v44z3pe4sg2vlh08k0an3wx3cj9qytkummnw3ez66tyvgaz7tmrv93ksefdwfjkccteqqsg6rn4uzw6p6gfxhumxzwelh02t8gmcpsffzc0zg8alux2cjnp7pse6jxyz

Using #Bluesky / #Mastodon is still better than using #Twitter (X) / #Threads / any centralized service. Threads may join the broader #fediverse but not yet. Eventually we'll get to #decentralized super apps or super protocols with interoperability so that we can end this superiority discussions. Be kind and Rome wasn't built in a day. Cheers!

H/T nostr:nprofile1qqsqlc933dxm7rs25s8u63eqnv4ynv6rrlz98drqal85tjst694adtqpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet5qyt8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn0deekzarn9ehhyecpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6un9d3shjtnhd3m8xtnnwpskxeg0dwxpj!

I have the same complaint. I almost left and then luckily, an amazing lady (regular person) welcomed me and zapped and I started seeing the potential of natr. Not just coin wise, but building meaningful connections and possibility of shifting outdated paradigms! so I decided to stay and give my contribution.