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 Would be nice a function that randomises the main feed by choosing followed contacts randomly each day. A sort of shuffle mode, without any trend algo.

Is there a client that does something like this?

It would promote the curation of one's own followed list, and the discovery of new and weird content, breaking easy trends.

#asknostr 
 I like it! I don't have much time now, but i would love to create a lurker client, and this seems a nice feature! 
 Zaps are better, if they paid something to the devs (to make it more costly to self zap) 
 One would just "self zap" using another client, no? 
 They would need to pay to the devs of that client.

They could also pay to a charity or any other well known matrix user. The idea is that you would know for a fact they've spent some money in that zap, at least the "tax" part. 
 > They would need to pay to the devs of that client.

No, they wouldn't. They could just find a client that doesn't require that, or build it themselves. Or modify one that exists.

You'll always get a client just the way you want. That's the beauty of open source.

> The idea is that you would know for a fact they've spent some money in that zap, at least the "tax" part.

You *NEVER*, under any circumstances, assume that you know *anything* as a matter of fact about what goes on on someone else's device, which is under their control, unless you're dealing with proprietary bullcrap. But in that case there's no point using a public domain decentralized protocol. 
 This is a great idea! Zapped sir 🫡 
 Lemme ask 
 I agree! 
 <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: roboto, Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">I asked and he found it too random if implemented this way its hard to introduce other users that u don't follow</span> 
 Please tell us which client you are using! 
 Wdym? I just work in their office to test this nostrnaut app to find bugs and then reporting it to them 
 Actually there is bug: the app probably fetchs the raw content of the contentEditable element, instead of the plain text, and this results in posting gibberish code 
 Or, maybe, that client supports HTML in the note content (which it shouldn't). 
 Why do you have HTML in your post? 
 Wdym? 
 Your post contained a SPAN tag for formatting.
This is nonstandard (unless there's a NIP for it…) as notes are supposed to be pure text. No HTML, no Markdown, no formatting.

Whatever client you were using placed HTML code in your note, which is not good.
On noStrudel, it correctly displays the HTML as text. 
 No algos, thanks, though  nothing can stop its implementation it should at least be optional, like following a hashtag but you pic the algo that curates your content. Maybe something like that? 🤔 
 Every client can do whatever it wants, and you can choose the client that fulfill your preferences, easy 
 Guess what: displaying the most recent posts in reverse chronological order requires an algorithm to do.
It's a simpler algorithm than @daniele suggested, but it's no less of an algorithm.