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dk | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Nostr is nice as a niche community today. I keep showing up because I love it.

But I think it can reshape how everyone finds information and evaluates truth online. In order to achieve this I advocate for tools to make it easier for less-ideological people to get to benefit/value quickly.

Everyone should be free to choose which components/tools we each want to use. But algos will help huge groups of people, especially helpful for first-timers.
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UnnamedPrayer | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 > I think it can reshape how everyone finds information and evaluates truth online.
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This is why I'm a bit hesitant when it comes to tools which try to solve people's laziness. It's probably inevitable for the same reason algos just have a bad precedent. If nostr really wants to stand out it shouldn't copy from the worst examples (reddit, twitter, facebook).
No matter how simple or clever the algorithm is it's going to prefer one group of people over others since that's the purpose of it and I think that's problematic.